This point of populus andplebs may seem at first sight somewhat pedantic and technical; but in reality it is the key which explains the whole social structure of Hungary, even its economic and agrarian problems.
These changes are very great, but are none of them radical, dating from the recognition of the plebs as pertaining to the Roman people.
The source of the plebsis one of the vexed points of Roman origins; and the view that they were primarily a conquered population is not yet generally accepted.
Only in theory can the mass of the plebs have been clients at any time.
The clientes, it seems clear, were as such admitted to the comitia, whereas the plebs were not.
There is a clear presumption that only from a weakened patriciate, forced to seek union, could the plebs have won their tribunate and enfranchisement.
On any view, the clientela rapidly dwindled, passing into the plebs (cp.
On the morrow that good plebs rushed to the ramparts and fought with intrepidity.
While Eidiol spoke the Count of Paris controlled his indignation with difficulty; finally he broke forth pale with rage: "Do you mean that your plebs will refuse to defend the city?
Count Eudes, and certain franchises and other measures of relief for the plebs of the city were agreed on.
Rothbert with concentrated rage "That plebs allowed the churches, the abbeys and the castles to be pillaged and set on fire!
Niebuhr clearly[24] denied the existence of the plebs until Ancus incorporated the Latins and bestowed upon them peculiar privileges thus forming a new and third class distinct from both patricians and clients.
The third great man of this distinguished family was Caius Licinius Calvus Stolo, who, in the prime of life and popularity, was chosen among the tribunes of the plebs for the seventh year following the death of Manlius the Patrician.
Church and royalty desire to annihilate the seigneurs in order themselves to lead at will the plebs cattle, bequeathed to them by the conquest.
It remains to be seen, Jeronimo, whether this plebs mass will be senseless enough to venture upon so distant and perilous a journey.
This plebsmass has become craven through the habit of slavery that weighs it down since the Frankish conquest.
Thus only one-third of the rustic plebswill emigrate.
My grandfather once told me that, during the famous famine of 1033, the plebs fed on one another.
The plebs grows threatening by reason of its numbers and the force that numbers carry with them.
The Church will resume her preponderance over both the plebs and the seigneurs.
As the guests arrived in rapid succession, the plebs pressed more and more forward, until at last some of the boldest stood within the threshold.
All this was witnessed with much glee by the plebs outside--the men smoking, the women eating and talking.
Ovid in the Metamorphoses has a vast number of imitations of which we select the most striking; Plebs habitat diversa locis (i.
He rose steadily through the quaestorship to the tribuneship of the plebs (52 B.
Its utterances (plebiscita) had the full force of law; it elected the tribunes of the plebs and the plebeian aediles, and it pronounced judgment on the penalties which they proposed.
Hortensian law fully recognized the right of resolutions of the plebs (plebiscita) to bind the whole community.
Hence the plebs adopted a new political organization of their own.
The plebs was composed of all the mass of the people which was neither senator nor patrician.
The name of Marius does not occur again for many years, but he doubtless continued to serve in the army, and became so distinguished that he was at length raised to the Tribunate of the Plebs in B.
That the Resolutions of the Plebs should be binding on all the Quirites,[22] thus giving to the Plebiscita passed at the Comitia of the Tribes the same force as the Laws passed at the Comitia of the Centuries.
He was made Tribune of the Plebs by Julius Cæsar, and was raised to the Consulship in B.
As Tribune of the Plebs four years before, he had taken an active part in opposing the Patricians, and was now suspected of plotting against the Decemvirs.
The Plebs were a subject-class without any share in the government.
Forward, my soldiers; bind the old monk, and exterminate the plebs if it offers resistance!
The present tendency is to take the plebs as representing an older population of Latium before the arrival of the patricians; see, e.
The fourth century is of course the period of plebeian advance in all departments, and ends with the opening of the priesthoods to the plebsby the lex Ogulnia, and the publication of the Fasti.
Such was the old festival of Anna Perenna in March, where the plebs in Ovid's time spent the day in revelry and drinking, and prayed for as many years of life as they could drink cups of wine.
A first condition of the being of Bully is that he shall hate the prowling great paws of the Plebs, whilst Plebs by inherent nature goes mad at the sight of Bully's jowl.
Roman dominion meant usually a betterment of the conditions of the plebs in the towns annexed, and their entering in varying degrees upon the rights the plebs had won at Rome.
Furthermore the people and the plebs came together for the elections, but nothing was done that would not please Cæsar.
He falls upon the plebs of the open fields, and his bands put everything to fire and to the sword.
For a moment struck dumb with terror by the issue of the judicial combat, the plebs crowd was slowly recovering its voice, and, despite its habit of respect towards the seigneurs, had begun to murmur with rising indignation.
The plebs of the town and neighboring fields, having hastened to witness the spectacle at the close of the mass, crowded on the outside.
By these means, and by the lavishness of his expenditure on public entertainments as aedile, he acquired such popularity with the plebsthat he was elected pontifex maximus in 63 B.
Of the two latter titles, the first is derived from the name of Venus Genetrix, the ancestress of the Julian house, the second indicates that the colonists were drawn from the plebs urbana.
Also to say that in all such rows, so far as I have seen or read, from the time when the Roman plebs marched out to Mons Sacer, down to 1848, when the English chartists met on Kennington Common, the upper classes are most to blame.
I need not cite to the learned the commonly cited testimony of Cyprian, Plebs maximam habet potestatem indignos recusandi, &c.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plebs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
