In ancient Rome, the plebs was the general body of free Roman citizens who were not patricians.
1 The Macedonian phalanx will destroy the mighty armies of the plebs of Europe.
2 The news was received with delight by both senate and plebs .
3 There were undoubtedly some very hairy plebs around, but a Yeti?
4 Plays for dancers were emphatically not plays for Irish plebs .
5 Even as we plebs are forced to make do with risky and volatile public stocks.
6 The praefect of Rome was popular with the plebs .
7 They were simply representatives and protectors of the plebs .
8 Mr Mitchell quit his post after it was alleged he called police " plebs " .
9 Mr Mitchell resigned over the row but denies calling officers " plebs " .
10 For this the Romans thirsted-patriciansand plebs alike, rich and poor, man, woman and child.
11 Their masterly addition that Mitchell called them " plebs " too was the killer calumny.
12 He rose steadily through the quaestorship to the tribuneship of the plebs (52 B.C.
13 Flaminius carried a law for the distribution of land taken from the Senones among the plebs .
14 Taurus Antinor hath the ear of the plebs .
15 But told the plebs the oracle was plain.
16 Its consequences were felt for many centuries: it was the origin of the tribunate of the plebs .
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