The majority of freedmen, however, joined the plebeian classes, and often worked as farmers or tradesmen.

Over time, the laws that gave patricians exclusive rights to Rome's highest offices were repealed or weakened, and a new aristocracy emerged from among the plebeian class.

Thither, too, thronged the plebeian classes as freely as their betters, and in larger number.

And he knew, as well, that Cassian's reputation as a saintly man was even more towering among the Syrian peasantry and plebeian classes.

They became a powerful plebeian class.

The other class was the plebeian class.

The first schools in Rome arose by the middle of the 4th century BC, coinciding with the rise of the plebeian class to political power.

Roman citizenship reflected a struggle between the upper-class patrician interests against the lower-order working groups known as the plebeian class.

The opening of the Consulship to the plebeian class implicitly opened both the Censorship as well as the Dictatorship to plebeians.

Marcellus was so highly regarded by his superiors that he was distinguished as a patrician, though technically his family was of the plebeian class.