Plebeius, Adiectiuum. Li. Pertaming to the common people. Plebeius. Plin. One of the comminaltie, not being a Gentleman. Plebeus, siue Plebeius.Plaut.Poore: base: meane: of little value: of the common sort.Amictus plebeius. Proper. Poore and meane apparel.Domus plebeia.Stat.Gemmæ plebeiæ. Pli. Pretious stones of the common sort: not of the best and finest.Iura plebeit.Stat. Olla plebeia Mart. Philofophi plebei.Cic.Meane philosophers.Purpura plebeia, ac penè fusca. Ci. Base purple of the meanest sorte.Rogus plebeius.Ouid. Senex plebeius. Sen. Sermo plebeius. Ci. The simple and homely speach that the common people vse.Vestis plebeia. Lucr. A poore garment.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
plēbēĭus (-ējus), a, um, adj. [id.]. I.Of or belonging to the common people or commonalty, plebeian (opp. to patricius), Liv. 4, 4, 11; Cic. Fam. 9, 21: familia, id. Mur. 7, 15: consul, Liv. 6, 40; 10, 23: Pudicitia, the goddess of Chastity of the plebeians, as there was also a Pudicitia patricia, id. ib.; cf. Fest. p. 237 Müll.: ludi,
popular sports
,
shows instituted by the commonalty
, Liv. 29, 38 fin.: fatum (opp. divitibus responsa data), Juv. 6, 588: Deciorum animae, id. 8, 254.—Subst.: plēbēĭus, i, m., a plebeian, Enn. ap. Fest. s. v. mutire, p. 145 Müll. (Trag. v. 376 Vahl.); Paul. Sent. 5, 4, 10.—II.Transf., in a contemptuous sense, plebeian (opp. to refined, elevated), common, vulgar, mean, low (class.): quamquam nos videmur tibi plebei et pauperes, Plaut. Poen. 3, 1, 12: licet concurrant omnes plebei philosophi; sic enim ii, qui a Platone, et Socrate, et ab eā familiā dissident, appellandi videntur, i. e. the Epicureans), Cic. Tusc. 1, 23, 55: purpura plebeia ac paene fusca, id. Sest. 8, 19: vina, Plin. 14, 6, 8, 69: charta, id. 13, 22, 23,—75: gemma, id. 37, 9, 45, 128: sermo, Cic. Fam. 9, 21, 3.—Adverb., Petr. 93.