plebs 的定义
- the common people, as contrasted with the patricians and later with the senatorial nobility or the equestrian order.
- the common people; the populace.
plebs 近义词
commonalty
更多plebs例句
- Meanwhile the daily tabloid Sun claimed that his chief whip, Andrew Mitchell, had called police officers guarding No. 10 “plebs.”
- The plebs grows threatening by reason of its numbers and the force that numbers carry with them.
- The only other central authority in the state was the king's council or court (eod, witan, plebs, concilium).
- To them exclusively the name of populus applied, as that of plebs was given to the plebeians.
- He falls upon the plebs of the open fields, and his bands put everything to fire and to the sword.
- For this the Romans thirsted—patricians and plebs alike, rich and poor, man, woman and child.