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Plebs

the plebs

also: plebem, plebs

The body of the Roman commons, whose legislative acts (plebiscita) bound the whole people; Cicero argues that neither populus nor plebs is bound by Antony's laws carried by violence and against the auspices.

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Mentioned in 102 works (283 total)

On Invention rhetoric · 1 mention
For Marcus Tullius speeches · 3 mentions
Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book I speeches · 2 mentions
Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book II speeches · 1 mention
Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book V speeches · 3 mentions
Against Verres, First Hearing speeches · 1 mention
For Aulus Cluentius speeches · 10 mentions
On the Manilian Law (On the Command of Pompey) speeches · 1 mention
On the Agrarian Law, First Speech speeches · 4 mentions
On the Agrarian Law, Second Speech speeches · 20 mentions
On the Agrarian Law, Third Speech speeches · 3 mentions
Against Catiline, First Speech speeches · 1 mention
Against Catiline, Fourth Speech speeches · 1 mention
For Lucius Murena speeches · 2 mentions
For Gaius Rabirius on a Charge of High Treason speeches · 5 mentions
Ad Familiares 5.6 letters · 1 mention
For Publius Sulla speeches · 2 mentions
Ad Atticum 1.14 letters · 2 mentions
Ad Atticum 1.16 letters · 3 mentions
Ad Atticum 1.18 letters · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 1.19 letters · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 2.1 letters · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 2.7 letters · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 2.9 letters · 2 mentions
Ad Atticum 2.12 letters · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 2.15 letters · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 2.18 letters · 1 mention
Ad Quintum Fratrem 1.2 letters · 1 mention
For Lucius Flaccus speeches · 3 mentions
Ad Atticum 3.12 letters · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 3.23 letters · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 14.1 letters · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 14.2 letters · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 14.3 letters · 1 mention
Ad Quintum Fratrem 1.4 letters · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 4.1 letters · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 4.2 letters · 1 mention
Ad Quintum Fratrem 2.1 letters · 1 mention
On His House speeches · 23 mentions
On His Return: To the Citizens speeches · 3 mentions
On His Return: To the Senate speeches · 9 mentions
Ad Quintum Fratrem 2.4 letters · 1 mention
On the Responses of the Haruspices speeches · 2 mentions
On the Consular Provinces speeches · 5 mentions
Against Vatinius speeches · 11 mentions
For Lucius Cornelius Balbus speeches · 2 mentions
For Marcus Caelius speeches · 1 mention
For Publius Sestius speeches · 30 mentions
On the Orator rhetoric · 1 mention
Against Piso speeches · 7 mentions
Ad Familiares 1.9 letters · 2 mentions
Ad Quintum Fratrem 2.11 letters · 1 mention
Ad Quintum Fratrem 3.1 letters · 1 mention
Ad Quintum Fratrem 3.4 letters · 1 mention
On the Commonwealth philosophy · 5 mentions
For Gnaeus Plancius speeches · 8 mentions
For Gaius Rabirius Postumus speeches · 1 mention
For Marcus Aemilius Scaurus speeches · 2 mentions
Ad Familiares 7.27 letters · 1 mention
On the Laws philosophy · 1 mention
For Titus Annius Milo speeches · 9 mentions
Ad Familiares 2.7 letters · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 8.4 letters · 2 mentions
Ad Familiares 8.8 letters · 4 mentions
Ad Atticum 6.8 letters · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 7.3 letters · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 7.7 letters · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 7.9 letters · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 2.18 letters · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 8.13 letters · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 7.21 letters · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 7.23 letters · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 8.3 letters · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 10.4 letters · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 16.11 letters · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 15.21 letters · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 9.21 letters · 1 mention
Brutus rhetoric · 12 mentions
Orator: To Marcus Brutus rhetoric · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 13.4 letters · 1 mention
For King Deiotarus speeches · 2 mentions
Ad Atticum 14.6 letters · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 11.6 letters · 1 mention
Cato the Elder, On Old Age philosophy · 1 mention
On Duties philosophy · 2 mentions
Laelius, On Friendship philosophy · 2 mentions
First Philippic speeches · 2 mentions
Second Philippic speeches · 4 mentions
Third Philippic speeches · 4 mentions
Ad M. Brutum 1.1 letters · 1 mention
Ad M. Brutum 1.10 letters · 1 mention
Ad M. Brutum 2.5 letters · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 10.16 letters · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 10.28 letters · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 12.7 letters · 1 mention
Eleventh Philippic speeches · 2 mentions
Twelfth Philippic speeches · 1 mention
Thirteenth Philippic speeches · 1 mention
Philippica XIV speeches · 1 mention
Fifth Philippic speeches · 2 mentions
Seventh Philippic speeches · 1 mention
Eighth Philippic speeches · 1 mention

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