The "allegory of the belly" described these people as the limbs of a body, which must work to feed their stomach if they are to function.
The "allegory of the belly" described these people as the limbs of a body, which must work to feed their stomach if they are to function. Many of these people lived in multi-story wooden apartments known as "islands" in their native language. During a debt crisis among these people, Mons Sacer was the site to which they seceded in 494 BC. These people were granted the power to issue binding resolutions by the Lex Hortensia; they were the only class allowed to nominate two people with veto power called tribunes. Those who lived in their capital city were given the suffix "urbana," while country-dwelling ones were called "rustica." For 10 points, name this large class in which was poorer and less legally privileged than patricians in the Roman Republic.
The "allegory of the belly" described these people as the limbs of a body, which must work to feed their stomach if they are to function.
Roman plebeians [or plebs; or plebes]