Also, if your patron wanted to run for a city office, your patron would expect you to be loyal and vote for him.

作为回报，如果庇护人要竞选官职，就会要求你投他一票。

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But he had great birth, and so he started getting more power politically and financially by setting himself up as the patron of the patronless.

但是出身很好，于是他通过给人当庇护人,来提高自己的政治及金融地位。

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But there's one thing that the Romans made even more of, than the Greeks had made of, and this is the patron-client structure.

但有一样东西罗马人比希腊人，做得更极致，即庇护关系。

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But it's important for understanding both the Roman Empire, as well as early Christianity and its patron-client relations.

这对了解罗马帝国，早期基督教，及其庇护关系很有帮助。

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So what do you have with all these other people, these other Romans around here, who don't have a powerful patron, who don't have a powerful paterfamilias to help them out?

那这些人怎么办？,其他普通罗马人，没有强大的庇护人，没有强大的家长帮忙？

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He and his family, the emperor's family, - was, in a sense, the patron for the whole people of the Roman Empire-- - at least for all the Romans-- the paterfamilias of the entire empire.

他及其家庭，帝王的家庭，某种意义上说，就是整个罗马帝国的庇护者-,至少是所有罗马人的-,他成了整个帝国的家长。

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This is the patron-client structure at work in the Roman army.

这就是罗马军队中的庇护关系。

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He became more and more the patron of all the people.

他成了所有人民的庇护者。

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So you'd have a patron who would be higher class, richer, more powerful, have some political power, and you would be loyal to your patron, and your patron would then represent you in court, try to get you jobs, try to get you more business, do all the kinds of things that patrons do for their clients.

要找个比你社会地位高，比你有钱有权，有一定政治影响力的庇护人，你也要忠诚于他，庇护人会在法庭上代表你，帮你找工作，帮你介绍生意，各种庇护人为被庇护人做的事。

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