Adjective modifier

• wealthy: But such measures were not attempted, evidently because the wealthy plebeians themselves had no less interest in these abuses than the patricians.

Modifies a noun

• aedile: After the war Laelius advanced from plebeian aedile ( 197 ) to praetor in Sicily ( 196 ) to consul ( 190 ).

• people: Too often the culture and decisions of plebeian people are described as the unproblematic response to circumstances beyond their own control.

• class: Its endowments have thus elevated our plebeian classes, and given them this higher mental ambition.

• woman: All these are hard questions to answer from the patchy records of plebeian women.

• agitator: Plebeian agitators had been dispossessed by machines and treated as machines.

• critic: Socialist, radical and plebeian critics sought, in contrast, to make it nonsensical or disastrous.