Plebeians

Examples

• This community followed the usual tradition of a division into aristocratic and common citizens, who were called in Rome patricians and plebeians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This Lex Valeria was the Habeas Corpus of Rome, and it freed the Roman plebeians from the worst dangers of class vindictiveness in the law courts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The plebeians were ousted from any share in the conquered lands, which the patricians divided up among themselves. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The plebeians withdrew again a second time to the Sacred Mount, and Appius Claudius committed suicide in prison. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Before the Punic Wars it was the tendency of ambitious men in Rome to court the plebeians; after that time they began to court the legions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And finally (3) there were patricians big-minded and far-seeing enough to insist upon the need of reconciliation with the plebeians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Trade was coming to Rome with increasing political power, and many plebeians were growing rich and many patricians becoming relatively poor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The mass of the details of this struggle between patricians and plebeians we can afford to ignore in this outline. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• For a long time the Roman patricians were clever enough to beat every such potential tyrant by giving in to a certain extent to the plebeians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It abated because, among other influences, the social differences between patricians and plebeians were diminishing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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