All 4 Uses of
plebeian
in
Don Quixote
- THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE God bless me, gentle (or it may be plebeian) reader, how eagerly must thou be looking forward to this preface, expecting to find there retaliation, scolding, and abuse against the author of the second Don Quixote—I mean him who was, they say, begotten at Tordesillas and born at Tarragona!†
Chpt 2.0
- their original greatness till it has come to nought, like the point of a pyramid, which, relatively to its base or foundation, is nothing; and then there are those—and it is they that are the most numerous—that have had neither an illustrious beginning nor a remarkable mid-course, and so will have an end without a name, like an ordinary plebeian line.†
Chpt 2.5-6
- Of plebeian lineages I have nothing to say, save that they merely serve to swell the number of those that live, without any eminence to entitle them to any fame or praise beyond this.†
Chpt 2.5-6
- And do not suppose, señor, that I apply the term vulgar here merely to plebeians and the lower orders; for everyone who is ignorant, be he lord or prince, may and should be included among the vulgar.†
Chpt 2.15-16 *
Definition:
of or belonging to common people -- often implying a lack of refinement
or:
an ordinary citizen of ancient Rome
or:
an ordinary citizen of ancient Rome