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13) Gracchi. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...a series of remarkable social reforms. The chief aim of these reforms was to unite the plebs and the equites, thus undermining the authority of the senate. The Lex...

14) §17. Middleton s "Life of Cicero". XIII. Historians. Vol. 10. The Age of Johnson. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...though his narrative may, at times, lack proportion, it shows that he had a heart for the plebs and could judge generously of Julius Cæsar. 31 Note 63. A full bibliography...

15) §3. Town and Gown. XV. English and Scottish Education. Universities and Public Schools to the Time of Colet. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...the struggles for these liberties the university employed the weapon forged by the Roman plebs of old. Between 1260 and 1264, seceding masters formed a studium at...

16) §12. Performances of Latin plays in the schools and at the Universities. V. Early English Comedy. Vol. 5. The Drama to 1642, Part One. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
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17) VII. To Atticus (In Epirus). Rome, September. Cicero. 1909-14. Letters. The Harvard Classics
...called upon to undertake the management of its supply in the common talk not only of the plebs, but of the aristocrats also, and being himself desirous of the commission,...

18) Act IV. Scene III. Titus Andronicus. Craig, W.J., ed. 1914. The Oxford Shakespeare
...bold to press to heaven in my young days. Why, I am going with my pigeons to the tribunal plebs, to take up a matter of brawl betwixt my uncle and one of the emperial...

19) Rome, city, Italy. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...which lasted four centuries. The patrician class controlled the government, but the plebs (who comprised by far the major portion of the population) were allowed...

20) IV. Working and Wandering. Riis, Jacob A. 1901. The Making of an American.
...had run into a snag about the middle of the little multiplication table. A boy from the plebs school challenged me to fight, as I was making my way to recitation,...