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Definition of Plebeians

Plebeian
Plebeian Ple*be"ian, n. 1. One of the plebs, or common people of ancient Rome, in distinction from patrician. 2. One of the common people, or lower rank of men.

Meaning of Plebeians from wikipedia

- Plebeians were not a monolithic social class. In the annalistic tradition of Livy and Dionysius, the distinction between patricians and plebeians was...
- between the patricians and the plebeians. The status of patricians gave them more political power than the plebeians, but the relationship between the...
- aediles: the first were the "plebeian aediles" (Latin: aediles plebis) and possession of this office was limited to plebeians; the other two were "curule...
- between the plebeians (commoners) and patricians (aristocrats) of the ancient Roman Republic lasting from 500 BC to 287 BC in which the plebeians sought political...
- the plebeians were burdened by crushing debt. A series of clashes between the people and the ruling patricians in 495 and 494 BC brought the plebeians to...
- plebeians seceding to the Mons Sacer (the Sacred Mountain), over three miles from the city, on the advice of Lucius Sicinius Vellutus. The plebeians then...
- that the tribes of the Plebeian Council included only plebeians, whereas the tribes of the Tribal ****embly included both plebeians and patricians. However...
- less-fortunate plebeian families, plebeians and patricians among the senatorial class were often equally wealthy. As civil rights for plebeians increased during...
- sharing of power with the plebeians, while others favoured it, and some were divided. Many gentes included both patrician and plebeian branches. These may have...
- and plebeians drawn up by a body composed by both patricians and plebeians (the majority of the members of the second decemvirate being plebeians)? In...