\paperw3900 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 \fs22 Only these had the right to the title of cives (citizens), while all the other inhabitants who belonged to stock that
had entered the city as a result of conquest or subjection were called plebeii and, at least up until the middle of the fourth century BC, received no public recognition. During the archaic era, there was also the category of the clientes, who had a rela
tionship of direct and exclusive dependence on a particular family and not the community as a whole.\par
With the Empire, all the powers that had helped to create and consolidate the greatness of the Roman state under the Republic were united in the fig
