vulgus

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The motto was, "Odi profanum vulgus et arceo."

From Public School Education by Müller, Michael

Vilia miretur vulgus, mihi flauus Apollo Pocula Castalia plena ministret aqua.

From Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge by Greg, W. W.

In these various ways all priests were outwardly shown to be holy men, sacerdotes, marked off from the profanum vulgus.

From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde

Turner in 1538 says, "ligustrum arbor est non herba ut literatorū vulgus credit; nihil que minus est quam a Prymerose."

From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson

The refinement of Rome might loftily echo Odi profanum vulgus et arceo: but Rome has herself fallen; and not on the portals of future science or of humanity shall any such motto be written.

From The Christian Religion An Enquiry by Ingersoll, Robert Green