plebeians
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Can’t Ms. Schmidt muster sympathy for plebeians renting a studio for $3,000?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Gladiatorial culture developed with the rise of what were known as games, or those events put on by elite Romans for plebeians and others socially beneath them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
But there are good deals for us plebeians if you know where to look.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
While the common people of ancient Rome were called plebeians, which word was used for a member of the Roman aristocracy?
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2023
The patricians had hitherto grasped the whole of the conquered soil, though they could not do so with clean hands; and Spurius Cassius proposed that the plebeians should have a share of it.
From The Comic History of Rome by Gilbert Abbott ? Becket
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