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Although some of the nobility and parts of the lower classes readily accepted these Greek iatroi and their philosophical approach to health care, there was also a sizable part of the Roman populace, probably the majority, who strongly opposed these "foreign" doctors and their philosophical ideas and clung strongly instead to the centuries‑old indigenous pattern of common sense medicine as handled by the pater familias.