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noun
Plebs  n.  
1.
The commonalty of ancient Rome who were citizens without the usual political rights; the plebeians; distinguished from the patricians.
2.
Hence, the common people; the populace; construed as a pl.





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"Plebs" Quotes from Famous Books



... few indeed, except the critics and the plebs, come here to look at the play; they come to see ...
— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan
... most meretricious play, is intended to symbolize the union of the worn-out aristocracy and the vigorous plebs to form a new and thriving stock. The duchess of San Quintn, left poor and a widow, weds Vctor, a socialist workman of doubtful parentage. The last act is weak and superfluous, the devices of the action cheap, and the motivation often faulty. Vctor's socialism is more ...
— Heath's Modern Language Series: Mariucha • Benito Perez Galdos
... blame With us vain men to-day: for cold would rack, Without their pelts, the naked sons of earth; But us it nothing hurts to do without The purple vestment, broidered with gold And with imposing figures, if we still Make shift with some mean garment of the Plebs. So man in vain futilities toils on Forever and wastes in idle cares his years— Because, of very truth, he hath not learnt What the true end of getting is, nor yet At all how far true pleasure may increase. And 'tis ...
— Of The Nature of Things • [Titus Lucretius Carus] Lucretius
... liberties; but prone to ire; Crime holding light as though by want compelled: And great the glory in the minds of men, Ambition lawful even at point of sword, To rise above their country: might their law: Decrees are forced from Senate and from Plebs: Consul and Tribune break the laws alike: Bought are the fasces, and the people sell For gain their favour: bribery's fatal curse Corrupts the annual contests of the Field. Then covetous usury rose, and interest Was greedier ever as the seasons came; Faith tottered; ...
— Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars • Lucan
... executed!—The Municipality sit tremulous; deliberating whether they will hang out the Drapeau Rouge and Martial Law: National Assembly, part in loud wail, part in hardly suppressed applause: Abbe Maury unable to decide whether the iconoclastic Plebs amount to forty thousand or ...
— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle


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