They didn't care about the lower-class really.

他们不太关注下层社会
The lower-class didn't really count much.

下层社会无足轻重
What they cared about--because the Roman Republic by this time

他们关注的是因为当时的罗马共和国
was basically a bunch of very important households,

主要由很多门阀世族
wealthy men and their households, and they were the

有钱人和他们的家族组成
members of the Senate, they were the knight class,

他们是元老院的元老是骑士阶层
they were the people who ran Rome.

是整个罗马的主宰者
So they didn't want one king to arise, and they didn't want a

所以他们不想要国王不希望一个
small coterie of leaders to arise.

由领袖组成的小圈子出现
They wanted there to be some kind of balance of power among

他们想要在几个罗马大家族之间保持
the several major households of Rome, the families of Rome.

某种权利的平衡
Now slaves obviously are in the paterfamilias.

奴隶显然是隶属于家家族