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unusual facts about plebeian



Dentatus

Manius Curius Dentatus (died 270 BC), son of Manius, a three-time consul and a plebeian hero of the Roman Republic

HP LaserJet

The HP LaserJet family, along with Aldus PageMaker and Microsoft Windows, was central to the PC-based solution and while the design was more plebeian than Apple's product, this multi-vendor solution was available to a mass audience for the first time.

Lucius Albinius

Lucius Albinius, a plebeian who was conveying his wife and children in a cart out of the city after the defeat on the Alia in 390 BC, and overtook on the Janiculus the priests and vestals carrying the sacred things.

Plebeian Council

The Concilium Plebis (English: Plebeian Council or People's Assembly) was the principal popular assembly of the ancient Roman Republic.

Publius Sempronius Tuditanus

Tuditanus, descended from a prominent branch of the plebeian gens Sempronia, may have been a nephew or cousin of the censor Marcus Sempronius C.f. Tuditanus who had been consul in 240 BC with Gaius Claudius Centho and censor in 230 BC with Quintus Fabius Maximus).

Roman censor

The magistracy continued to be controlled by patricians until 351 BCE, when Gaius Marcius Rutilus was appointed the first plebeian censor.

Spurius Carvilius Maximus

, later surnamed Maximus, was the first member of the plebeian gens Carvilia to obtain the consulship, which he held in 293 BC, and again in 272 BC.

Village on Wheels

This is envisaged to be the more plebeian version of the luxurious Palace on Wheels trains.


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