The plebeian class of Ancient Rome.
Why I am going with my pidgeons to the tribunall Plebs.
The common people, especially (derogatory) the mob.
For 'tis an Easier Thing To make Trees Leape, and Stones selfe-burthens bring (As once Amphion to the walls of Thæbes,)
From Latin plēbs (“the plebeian class”), variant of earlier plēbēs. Later also understood as the plural of pleb.
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