plebs's Usage Examples:

tribe], member of the College of Epulones, praetor, tribune of the plebs, septemvir of the Epulones Below the inscription on the east-facing side is a second.

CharacterSallust refers to Memmius as a man fiercely hostile to the power of the nobles and states that he gave speeches whipping up the plebs, urging them not to accept the behaviour of the nobles.

decisions in certain suits affecting the plebs, and pass resolutions on various proposals made by the tribunes of the plebs and the higher magistrates.

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polloi include "the plebeians" or "plebs", "the rabble", "the masses", "riffraff", and "the proles" (proletariat).

Secessio plebis (withdrawal of the commoners, or secession of the plebs) was an informal exercise of power by Rome"s plebeian citizens, similar in concept.

For most of Roman history, a college of ten tribunes of the plebs acted as a.

He was elected tribune of the plebs in 111 BC, and was instrumental in relaunching the Jugurthine War after Jugurtha’s surrender in 111 BC.

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had sworn at police officers on duty at Downing Street and called them "plebs" (a pejorative word signifying someone of low social class) when they refused.

The plebeians, also called plebs, were, in ancient Rome, the general body of free Roman citizens who were not patricians, as determined by the census.

as a political group with the reforms of the Gracchi brothers, who were tribunes of the plebs between 133 and 121 BC.

most important were the tribunes of the plebs and the military tribunes.

Synonyms:

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

Antonyms:

noble, clergyman, intellectual,