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plebi

plebi is a Latin form of plebs, meaning “the common people”.

It can also be a form of plebes, “(plebs) the common people, the plebeians”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 232 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.3.4: itemque Dumnorigi Haeduo, fratri Diviciaci, qui eo tempore principatum in civitate obtinebat ac maxime plebi acceptus erat, ut idem conaretur persuadet eique filiam suam in matrimonium dat.

Plautus, Pseudolus 2.4.748b: Plebi scitum non est scitius.

All forms of plebs (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.