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  • I would be literally patrician in the sense that the senators in ancient Rome were called conscript fathers, paters, from which comes the word patrician. So if you come from a senatorial family, you are literally patrician in that sense, but that doesn't mean that you couldn't be Billy Carter, you know, of recent memory.

    "Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.