plebes

See also: plèbes

English

Noun

plebes

1. plural of plebe

Anagrams

• bleeps

Latin

Alternative forms

• plēbs, plēbis

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpleː.beːs/, [ˈpɫ̪eːbeːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈple.bes/, [ˈplɛːbes]

Noun

plēbēs f (variously declined, genitive plēbeī or plēbī or plēbis); fifth declension, third declension

1. Alternative form of plēbs
   • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, De Lege Agraria 2.66.10:

     Habes tantam pecuniam qua hosce omnis agros et ceteros horum similis non modo emere verum etiam coacervare possis; cur eos non definis neque nominas, ut saltem deliberare plebes Romana possit quid intersit sua, quid expediat, quantum tibi in emendis et in vendendis rebus committendum putet?

     • 1930 translation by John Henry Freese

       Your wealth is so great that you can not only buy these lands and others like them, but heap them all together; why do you not limit them and give their names, that the Roman people may at least be able to consider what its interest is, what is to its advantage, how much confidence it thinks ought to be given to you in the purchase and sale of things?

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 2.21.6:

     Eo nuntio erecti patres, erecta plebes.

     • 1919 translation by B. O. Foster

       These tidings cheered the Fathers and encouraged the plebs.

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 3.11.8:

     Hoc duce saepe pulsi foro tribuni, fusa ac fugata plebes est; qui obvius fuerat, mulcatus nudatusque abibat, ut satis appareret, si sic agi liceret, victam legem esse.

     • 1922 translation by B. O. Foster

       His leadership often drove the tribunes from the Forum and ignominiously routed the plebeians; the man who crossed his path came off bruised and stripped; so that it was clear that if things were allowed to go on in this way the law was beaten.

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 3.19.3:

     Perculsa erat plebes consulem habitura iratum, potentem favore patrum, virtute sua, tribus liberis, quorum nemo Caesoni cedebat magnitudine animi, consilium et modum adhibendo ubi res posceret priores erant.

     • 1922 translation by B. O. Foster

       The plebs were filled with dismay at the prospect of a consul incensed against themselves and strong in the favour of the senate, his own worth, and his three sons, none of whom was inferior to Caeso in courage, while they surpassed him in using wisdom and restraint when the need arose.

Declension

Fifth-declension noun or third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	plēbēs	plēbēs
Genitive	plēbeī plēbī plēbis	plēbium
Dative	plēbeī plēbī	plēbibus
Accusative	plēbem	plēbēs plēbīs
Ablative	plēbē plēbe	plēbibus
Vocative	plēbēs	plēbēs

Noun

plēbēs

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of plēbs

References

• “plebes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “plebes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• plebes in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• plebes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) the dregs of the people: faex populi, plebis, civitatis
    
  • (ambiguous) a demagogue, agitator: plebis dux, vulgi turbator, civis turbulentus, civis rerum novarum cupidus
    
  • (ambiguous) the plebeian tribunes, whose persons are inviolable: tribuni plebis sacrosancti (Liv. 3. 19. 10)
    
  • (ambiguous) to appeal to the plebeian tribunes against a praetor's decision: appellare tribunos plebis (in aliqua re a praetore) (Liv. 2. 55)
    
• “plebes”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Noun

plebes

1. plural of plebe

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplebes/ [ˈple.β̞es]
• Rhymes: -ebes
• Syllabification: ple‧bes

Noun

plebes

1. plural of plebe