plebeians

Example Sentences

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Plebeians also gained election to the consulship, the highest office in Rome.

From Washington Post • Dec. 2, 2016

Nevertheless, even a misfire like The Plebeians can serve as a reminder of what is largely missing from the London stage nowadays.

From Time Magazine Archive

A silver-haired Martial with a soldier’s build—the captain, I assume—is overseeing a group of Plebeians and Scholar slaves stacking boxes of cargo.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

The city passes in a blur of gaping Plebeians, muttering auxes, and a riot of merchants and their stalls.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

‘The principle was established that Patricians and Plebeians were both citizens of the State, and equally eligible to the honours and dignities of the Republic.’

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund