Noun:

निम्‍न वर्ग का व्‍यक्ति, घटिया व्यक्ति, नीच,

plebs's Usage Examples:

The decemvirate, one of the triumphs of the plebs, could hardly have been abolished by that body, but would naturally have been overthrown by the patricians.

The so-called cities (7rbXas) of the TEpioucot answered pretty well to the local plebeian tribes; the difference is that the 7repioLKOC never became a united corporate body like the Roman plebs.

The four Ionic tribes at Athens seem to have answered very closely to the three patrician tribes at Rome; but the Athenian demos grew up in a different way from the Roman plebs.

They were the true populus Romanus, alongside of whom grew up a secondary Roman people, the plebs or commons.

Presently other settlers, perhaps not always Greek, gathered round the original Syracusan people; they formed a distinct body, Siiµos or plebs, personally free, but with an inferior political franchise or none at all.

Cicero and Livy bear testimony to the disappearance of a free plebs from the country districts and its replacement by gangs of slaves working on great estates.

71) he distinguishes this ordo from the Christian plebs or laity.

Thus has been preserved an absolutely unique historical document of great importance, recounting (I) the numerous public offices and honours conferred on him, (2) his various benefactions to the state, to the plebs and to his soldiers, and (3) his military and administrative services to the empire.

Milo was tribune of the plebs in 57 B.C. He took a prominent part in bringing about the recall of Cicero from exile, in spite of the opposition of Clodius.

Hence the plebs had an interest in securing their decisions against undue influence.

Synonyms:

folk, common person, lowbrow, common man, common people, philistine, plebeian, commoner, anti-intellectual, folks,

Antonyms:

noble, clergyman, intellectual,