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these other Romans around here, who don't have a powerful

这一部分罗马人他们没有一个强势的
paterfamilias to help them out?

强大的家长
This is where Julius Caesar was quite the genius.

尤利乌斯·凯撒的高明在这
Julius Caesar came from a patrician family--

他出身显赫
that is, a family, an aristocratic family--

来自贵族家庭
but he started siding with a party in Rome called the populares.

但他最初支持的是罗马平民派
And I think this is on your handout; correct?

我想你们的讲义上有提到对吗
The Roman Senate, in the late part of the

罗马的元老院在共和国晚期
Republic--yes--started dividing itself into two sort of parties;

是的开始分裂成两个党派
not official parties, but factions.

并不是正式的政党而是小派系
The optimates, meaning "The best,"

Optimates [贵族派] 词义是最佳
tended to support the interests of the wealthy senators and the

贵族派偏袒富有的元老们