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Plebeians
The plebeians were the body of ordinary Roman citizens, as distinct from the aristocratic patricians in the early Republic. In the Roman Empire they formed the broad citizen class below the senatorial and equestrian orders. Their status was above that of freedmen and the large enslaved population.
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