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tended to support the interests of the wealthy senators and the
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few wealthiest families.
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The populares started representing the interests of
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everybody else in Rome.
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Populares just comes from the word for "The people."
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Julius Caesar was from one of these aristocratic,
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patrician families, although his family didn't have
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a lot of money, they weren't really,
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really wealthy.
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But he had great birth, and so he started getting more
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power politically and financially by setting himself
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up as the patron of the patronless.