Voorbeelden van pleb

• He told us that this was for the "plebs"; it was for the lower classes.

• Behind them sat the equites (knights), and behind the knights were the plebs (commoners) and non-citizens.

• All magistracies and the tribunes of the plebs had resigned in advance.

• The annual magistrates - tribune of the plebs, aedile, quaestor, praetor, and consul -- were forbidden reelection until a number of years had passed.

• With the announcement of the new laws, the plebs were to a degree freed from injustice and subjectivity during trials.

• He was appointed tribune of the plebs in 41 and praetor in 42.

• The plebs were demanding for definite, written, and secular laws.

• This office was the first government position held by the plebs, since at this time the office of consul was held by patricians solely.

• The tribunes of the plebs denounce the rich patricians who monopolized public lands and demand fairer land distribution.

• The two most important were the tribunes of the plebs and the military tribunes.

• Themselves melancholic, they were dismissed by the critic for displaying a sentimental humanism which is foremost loved by the plebs.

• Two were aediles plebis; the other two were called the "aediles curules" and these were open to both the plebs and to patricians.

• The famine arose because the plebeian farmers had not sown their fields during the secession of the plebs which ended the previous year.

• The first secession was caused by the excessive burden of debts that weighed on the plebs.

• Caelius was quaestor 55 or 54, tribune of the "plebs" in 52, and curule aedile in 50.