Plebs
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plebs · the Plebs · Plebeians · commonalty · commons · people · plebeians
spoken of as
2 expressionsCommonalty“Plebs”1 mention
Institutes of Roman Law (English)
the commonalty are all the citizens, except the patricians.
The Plebs1 mention
On the Commonwealth (Latin)
But that which the very nature of things compelled to come about—that the people, freed from kings, should claim a little more right to itself—came to pass after no long interval, in about the sixteenth year, in the consulship of Postumus Cominius and Spurius Cassius;
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
Roman plebeian order, whose secession produced the plebiscite that became the lex Aquilia.
The lex Aquilia was a plebiscite carried by a tribune called Aquilius, according to Theophilus, at one of the secessions of the plebs, probably at the secession to the Janiculum, b.
while, in the matters of intestate inheritance and guardianship, the rights of the Agnati, common to Plebeians and Patricians, were regarded as prior to those of the Gentiles The harsh law of debt, which was a result at once of freedom of contract and of the very severe view which ancient societies take of the defaulting debtor, was maintained;
) maintained by the tribunes of the Plebs, then of a commission sent to gain knowledge of Hellenic codes, next of the appointment of two successive boards of Decemvirs for the years 451, 450 b.
On the Commonwealth
The common people of Rome, whose liberty and rights are a recurring concern in the constitutional narrative.
But that which the very nature of things compelled to come about—that the people, freed from kings, should claim a little more right to itself—came to pass after no long interval, in about the sixteenth year, in the consulship of Postumus Cominius and Spurius Cassius;
who, two tables of unfair laws being added, by which—the very intermarriages which are wont to be granted even to peoples severed from one another—these men sanctioned by a most inhuman law that the plebs should not have them with the fathers (which afterward was abrogated by the Canuleian plebiscite), presided over the people in every command lustfully and bitterly and greedily.
For when the state had been shaken by debt, the plebs first occupied the Sacred Mount, then the Aventine.