vulgus

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Horace introduces that series of his Odes which most breathes a national spirit by disclaiming all sympathy with the ‘profanum vulgus.’

From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.

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

Vindice servabat nullo sua publica vulgus; Iamque in privato pascere inertis erat.

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund

However much these may catch the attention and awaken the admiration of the ignobile vulgus, they cannot fail to excite any thing but complacency in minds accustomed to the more chaste productions of the pencil.

From Gleanings by the Way by Clark, John A.

So Lactantius, "Magi et ii quos verè maleficos vulgus appellat."

From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by Newman, John Henry Cardinal