Corbulo was born in Italy into a senatorial family.
They were all either reinstated senators or young men from senatorial families who could be relied upon to shore up the power of the Senate.
From this time onwards, senatorial families mostly invested their capital in land.
She was a daughter of a distinguished Spanish Roman senatorial family.
Born of a senatorial family, he became bishop of Tours around 460.
The record of senatorial families in the 5th and 6th centuries is very sparse.
At times even Rome itself was dominated by a great senatorial family whom the popes could not control.
She was born and raised in a senatorial family in Rome.
His family as he depicts it was one of the greatest senatorial families in Gaul.
Though not himself belonging to any of the great senatorial families, he was in a position to associate with them on equal terms.