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I’m the second son of a rich Republican plebeian, that has been adopted by the last male descendant of an ancient Patrician family as he and my father were close and struck a contract to keep his family from extinction. Can I legally marry his daughter, and am I now legally a Patrician?

by /u/AustinioForza in /r/AskHistorians

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