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3 unusual facts about plebs


Plebs

In September 2012, UK Conservative Party Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell was reported using the word in a tirade directed at police officers in Downing Street.

Plebs' League

Central to the formation of the League was Noah Ablett, a miner from the Rhondda who was at the core of a group at Ruskin College, Oxford who opposed the lecturers' opposition to Marxism.

The Miners' Next Step

The pamphlet was written by the 'Unofficial Reform Committee' a group of syndaclist and socialists involved in the Plebs' League and the Cambrian Combine strike of 1910-11.


486 BC

During his third consulate, the Roman consul Spurius Cassius Viscellinus proposes an agrarian law to assist needy plebeians, a measure violently opposed both by the patricians and by the wealthy plebeians, who have Cassius condemned and executed.

Aulus Pompeius

Aulus Pompeius (flourished 2nd century BC) was the son Quintus Pompeius tribune of the plebs in 132 BC, who was an opponent to politician Tiberius Gracchus and was the younger brother to the above named.

Aventine Triad

Against a background of famine in Rome, an imminent war against the Latins and a threatened plebeian secession, the dictator A. Postumius vowed a temple to the patron deities of the plebs, Ceres, Liber and Libera on or near the Aventine Hill.

Brogitarus

Cicero claims that Brogitarus obtained his elevation to the kingship of Galatia alongside Deiotarus by bribing P. Clodius Pulcher, who was then tribune of the plebs at Rome.

Lydia Rose Bewley

In 2013 she appeared in the sitcom Plebs as Metella and Bunny, one of the lead characters in the E4 comedy Drifters.

Pierre Willems

It was by the exercise of the curule magistracies that the plebs entered the Senate, in fact after 354-200; a plebiscite proposed by the Tribune Ovinius and accepted at the end of the fourth century hastened the introduction of the plebeians, and, in short, made the Senate an assembly of former magistrates.

Sophie Colquhoun

She is a British actress who has starred in various Film and TV projects such as Plebs, Captain America: The First Avenger, Switch, Fresh Meat and numerous other shows.

Weighted voting

In the Plebeian Council, where only the plebs could participate, these effects were somewhat relaxed, thus making the decision to grant its decisions (called plebiscites) the full force of law controversial (Lex Hortensia in 287 BC).


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