Sentence examples for the plebeians from inspiring English sources
adjective
Of or pertaining to the Roman plebs, or common people.
Gradually the plebeians were fairly successful.
Plays: 1972, The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising.
These magistrates were elected in the assembly of the plebeians.
It also keeps reminding us that we are the lowly citizens -- the plebeians.
Now everyone wears shades of gray; you can't tell the plebeians from the patricians.
The public — the plebeians, as they are often called — are vulgar, uncouth, ignorant.
The authors speculate that the plutocrats expect the plebeians, out of jealousy, to destroy their wealth.
His contempt for the plebeians and their political leaders, the tribunes, is unsparing.
Until 287 bc the plebeians waged a campaign (Conflict of the Orders) to have their civil disabilities abolished.
As conservative senators worked to restrain the democratic element in the political processes, the plebeians sought to expand their freedom.
A second board completed the laws of the Twelve Tables with two laws less favourable to the plebeians.
