Plebeian in a sentence

However, it remained difficult for a plebeian to enter the senate if he was not from a well-known political family, as a new patrician-like plebeian aristocracy emerged.

It made no reference to Liber, whose open and gender-mixed cult continued to play a central role in plebeian culture, as a patron and protector of plebeian rights, freedoms and values.

Rather than permit the consular dignity to pass into the hands of a plebeian, the senate proposed a compromise whereby three military tribunes, who might be either patrician or plebeian, should be elected in place of the consuls.

Some festivals were Plebeian in nature, and thus were under the superintendence of Plebeian Aediles.

Steven Saylor 's 2007 novel Roma presents Coriolanus as a plebeian, the child of a patrician mother and plebeian father.

The plebeian aediles were elected by the Plebeian Council and the curule aediles were either elected by the Tribal Assembly or appointed by the reigning consul.

Our reputations and influences have a butterfly effect that we forget a lot of the time, even in our small, plebeian circles.

It’s a nice reminder of Allen’s legacy and just who owns this city so toe the fucking line, you plebeian.

Abbott, 28 The plebeians called these new officials " plebeian tribunes ".

Abbott, 52 This was not the first law to require that an act of the Plebeian Council have the full force of law.

A plebeian branch of the gens, the Claudii Marcelli, retained the supposedly patrician spelling, while there is some inscriptional evidence that the -o- form may also have been used on occasion by close male relatives of the "patrician tribune" Clodius.

Approximately 1,200 "plebes" (an abbreviation of the Ancient Roman word plebeian ) enter the Academy each summer for the rigorous Plebe Summer, but only about 1,000 midshipmen graduate.

As the tribunes and the senators grew closer, plebeian senators were often able to secure the tribunate for members of their own families.

At the foundation of the Republic in 510 BC, the patricians held sole claim to this office; by 300 BC, the office was open to plebeian occupation as well.

By 287 BC, the economic condition of the average plebeian had become poor.

Cicero was neither a patrician nor a plebeian noble ; his rise to political office despite his relatively humble origins has traditionally been attributed to his brilliance as an orator.

Curule Aediles, as formal magistrates, held certain honors that Plebeian Aediles (who were not technically magistrates), did not hold.

Curule Aediles were added at a later date in the 4th century BC, and their duties do not differ substantially from plebeian aediles.

Despite this, no plebeian censor performed the solemn purification of the people (the "lustrum"; Livy Periochae 13) until 280 BC.

Eck (2003), 117. Conspiracy Many of the political subtleties of the Second Settlement seem to have evaded the comprehension of the Plebeian class, who were Augustus' greatest supporters and clientele.