id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6654 Plebeians - Wikipedia .html text/html 2842 420 66 The plebeians, also called plebs, were, in ancient Rome, the general body of free Roman citizens who were not patricians, as determined by the census, or in other words "commoners". 'notability'), marking the creation of a ruling elite of nobiles that allied the interests of patricians and noble plebeians.[4] From the mid-4th century to the early 3rd century BC, several plebeian–patrician "tickets" for the consulship repeated joint terms, suggesting a deliberate political strategy of cooperation.[5] Although nobilitas was not a formal social rank during the Republican era, in general, a plebeian who had attained the consulship was regarded as having brought nobility to his family. ^ Fergus Millar, "The Political Character of the Classical Roman Republic, 200–151 B.C.," as reprinted in Rome, the Greek World, and the East (University of North Carolina Press, 2002), p. Patricians and plebeians: The origin of the Roman state. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6654.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6654.txt