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# I do not usually comment on shameful stories like the one that took place in a Georgian hotel
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/obychno-ia-takie-postydnye-istorii-kak-proizoshedshaia-v-gruzinskom-otele-ne-kommentiruiu/
- Published: 2026-07-28T15:14:48.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:25:31.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Observations, Mores, Society

I do not usually comment on shameful stories like the one that took place in a Georgian hotel. But for the completeness of this disgraceful drama it must be observed that the word “client” originally denoted a person under protection.

The Latin cliens goes back to the verb cluere, “to obey, to heed, to listen”. In ancient Rome it was the name given to a free man who had placed himself under the patronage of a noble patron. The patron defended him in court, helped him with money and represented his interests.

This sense survived into modern times, when “client” came to mean a person whom a lawyer represents and defends.

The meaning “one who uses services for payment” appears only in the seventeenth century, yet even today one can distinguish the shades of meaning between the buyer and the consumer, who simply make a purchase or consume some commodity, and the client, who stands in a continuing relationship involving service and certain guarantees, of safety at the very least, most certainly.