vulgus
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In these various ways all priests were outwardly shown to be holy men, sacerdotes, marked off from the profanum vulgus.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
More of a concio ad vulgus than the former, it shows a pretty obvious endeavour to soften and popularise, without unduly vulgarising, the academic tone of the earlier work.
From Matthew Arnold by George Saintsbury
Nor had he before less happily rendered the 39th verse of the second Aeneid: Scinditur in certum studia in contraria vulgus.
From The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author by George Saintsbury
The following nouns in -us are Neuter:— pelagus, sea; vīrus, poison; vulgus, crowd.
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
She invited him to visit her garden—a sanctuary into which the profanum vulgus were never allowed to penetrate.
From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by W. H. Davenport Adams
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