plebeian

plebeian
adj.
Base: P. and V. τᾰπεινός, φαῦλος, κᾰκός.
Democratic: Ar. and P. δημοτῐκός.
The Plebeians: use Ar. and P. δῆμος, ὁ.

plebeian
subs.
P. and V. δημότης, ὁ (Xen. also Ar.).

PLEBEIAN

adj. homo vulgaris; unus e or de multis (one of the multitude): homo de plebe; plebejus (a citizen): homo infimo or sordido loco natus; homo sordidus; homo obscurus (of low birth): homo rudis (an uneducated person): homo inhonestus (a dishonest vile person). Quite a plebeian homo ultimae sortis (with respect to extraction): homo inhonestissimus (relative to character): the plebeians plebs (the common people in opposition to partly to populus partly to patricii nobiles; also the lower class of the people in a depreciatory sense): vulgus (as distinguished by ignorance credulity etc. from the better class of the people and so implying a reflection on personal or individual character or qualifications): multitudo (the multitude in general).

plebeian (adj.): plēbēius (both in strict sense, relating to the plebs; and fig. = low, vulgar): distinguished and honourable p. families, amplae et honestae familiae p., Cic. Mur. 7, 15: Liv. Fig.: the p. (inferior) philosophers, p. philosophi, Cic. Tusc. 1, 23, 55. For fig. sense, v. VULGAR, MEAN (II.). The p. order, plebs, plēbis: v. foll. art.

plebeian (subs.):

I. A member of the plebeian order at Rome:

1. plēbēius (homo, etc.): to elect no p. (as consul), neminem plebeium creare, Liv. 6, 40, fin.: Cic.: the pl. can be used without a subs.: cf. L. G. § 339, Obs. 2.

2. collect. the p.s, the plebeian order: plebs or plēbes, is (rarely -ĕi), f.: the p.s seceded from the patricians, plebes a patribus secessit, Sall. Cat. 33: so Cic. Br. 14, 54 (where some edd. read plebs, which became the more usual form): Liv.

II. In wider sense, a low-bred person: homo sordĭdus (v. MEAN, adj. II.); infimo loco natus, Cic. Fl. 11, init. See also IGNOBLE; OBSCURE; LOWER (II.). (Not homo plebeius, in this sense.)