- clientela
- clĭentēla, ae, f. [id.], the relation of patron and client, clientship; patronage, protection; the intimate and reciprocal duties of attachment and interest, based on the private relations in Rome between a Roman of a lower grade (plebeian or freedman) or a foreigner, and the patron chosen by him (cf. Dion. Halic. 2, 9 and 10, pp. 83- 85; Gell. 5, 13; 20, 1): Thais patri se commendavit in clientelam et fidem, * Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 9; cf.: esse in fide et clientelā. to be the client of, Cic. Rosc. Am. 33, 93:b.
conferre se in fidem et clientelam alicujus,
id. ib. 37, 106: scis quam diligam Siculos et quam illam clientelam honestam judicem, [p. 354] id. Att. 14, 12, 1:per nomen et clientelas inlustrior haberi,
Tac. A. 3, 55.—Very freq., mostly in plur., concrete, clients, dependents:B.amplissimas clientelas acceptas a majoribus confirmare poterit,
Cic. Fam. 13, 64, 2; so id. Cat. 4, 11, 23:magna esse Pompei beneficia et magnas clientelas in provinciā sciebat,
bodies of clients, Caes. B. C. 2, 17; Sall. J. 85, 4; Vell. 2, 29; Tac. A. 3, 55:incedentibus regiis clientelis,
id. ib. 12, 36; 13, 37; 14, 61; Suet. Tib. 2; id. Calig. 3.—In sing., Just. 8, 4, 8. —In gen., clientship, alliance (cf. cliens, B.), Caes. B. G. 6, 12.—II.Trop. (cf. cliens, II.), patronage, protection:poëtae sub clientelā musarum esse,
Suet. Gram. 6.
Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary, 1879. - Revised, Enlarged, and in Great Part Rewritten. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and Charles Short. 2011.