| They tended to be quite popular with the plebeians, though the patricians were known to get very jealous. |
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| In 494 B.C., the plebeians threatened to leave Rome and set up their own independent state. |
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| Until the 2nd century BC, the curule aedileships rotated on a yearly basis between patricians and plebeians. |
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| Is it Coriolanus, or instead those who surround him, the plebeians, the patricians? |
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| For example, historians of the boulevard theater have seen the elite jostle plebeians. |
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| Or that the patricians still think the plebeians didn't understand the treaty. |
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| Oppressed, as they thought, by the patricians, the plebeians in a body walked out of Rome and set themselves up on a neighbouring hill. |
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| In ancient Rome clients were plebeians who were bound in a subservient relationship with their patrician patron. |
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| Long after the autumn of 1880, far more plebeians than patricians experienced the pain of this communal punishment. |
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| This was established early in the conflict between patricians and plebeians. |
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| Even the plebeians are people and should not be spurned or provoked. |
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| Sharp divisions are established by law between patricians and plebeians. |
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| As a result, bullfighting was left to the plebeians who in turn enthusiastically took up to its practice, and took it to heart as a symbol of something genuinely Spanish. |
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| It could also be true that she really was an insufferable lunatic afraid of catching Ebola from the plebeians. |
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| It had nothing to do with militarism or with the violent sports that had brought aristocrats and plebeians together around the prize-fight or cock-fight. |
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| The Comitia Centuriata included both patricians and plebeians organized into five economic Classes and distributed among internal divisions called Centuries. |
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| The authors speculate that the plutocrats expect the plebeians, out of jealousy, to destroy their wealth. |
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| Shakespeare's frequent juxtaposition of royalty in one scene with plebeians in the next reflects a very British way of looking at society. |
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| Rome conferred sacred status and inviolable immunity on the tribunes of the plebeians. |
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| Wealthy plebeians were assimilated into the patrician class. |
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| Were Wallace's limbs, on poles above Scottish gatehouses, meant as a sign to Edward's Scottish allies that they could deal likewise with uppity plebeians? |
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| Masses of unemployed plebeians soon began to flood into Rome, and thus into the ranks of the legislative assemblies. |
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| Gradually the plebeians were fairly successful. |
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| After the consulship had been opened to the plebeians, the plebeians were able to hold both the dictatorship and the censorship. |
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| Further laws attempted to relieve the burden of debt from plebeians by banning interest on loans. |
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| By this point, plebeians were already holding a significant number of magisterial offices. |
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| The plebeians demanded relief, but the senators refused to address their situation. |
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| The significance of this law was in the fact that it robbed the patricians of their final weapon over the plebeians. |
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| The plebeians rebelled by leaving Rome and refusing to return until they had more rights. |
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| The patricians then noticed how much they needed the plebeians and accepted their terms. |
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| In effect, the plebeians were satisfied with the possession of power, but did not care to use it. |
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| Since the tribunes were considered to be the embodiment of the plebeians, they were sacrosanct. |
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| The patriotism of the plebeians had kept them from seeking any new reforms. |
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| This last proposal was not popular with the plebeians and he lost much of his support. |
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| As a person, ancient historians described Claudius as generous and lowbrow, a man who sometimes lunched with the plebeians. |
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| The magistracies were originally restricted to patricians, but were later opened to common people, or plebeians. |
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| Senators and plebeians alike found themselves under the decemviral yoke. |
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| In the final decades of this era many plebeians grew poorer. |
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| The Hortensian Law deprived the patricians of their last weapon against the plebeians, and thus resolved the last great political question of the era. |
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| The plebeians then returned to Rome and continued their work. |
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| The plebeians had finally achieved political equality with the patricians. |
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| The patricians agreed, and the plebeians returned to the battlefield. |
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| The plebeians demanded the right to elect their own officials. |
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| Their sacrosanctity was enforced by a pledge, taken by the plebeians, to kill any person who harmed or interfered with a tribune during his term of office. |
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