• PEOPLE

1.

• s. Persons (general term), homines, plur.; frequently, however, in Latin, homines is omitted: (a) with adjectives; e.g., many people, multi; all people, omnes; good people, boni: (b) when followed by qui; e.g., there are people who say, sunt, qui dicant: there are people who believe, sunt, qui existiment: (c) in the phrase people (= persons generally, most men) say, dicunt; narrant.
• Persons belonging to anyone, alicujus familia (the slaves, etc., collectively; Vid: Caes., B.G., 1, 4): alicujus famuli, ministri (servants): alicujus comites, qui aliquem comitantur (attendants): alicujus milites (soldiers); my, thy, etc., people, mei, tui (Vid: Plin., Ep., 5, 6, 46; of the servants): to belong to the people of anyone, esse ab aliquo.
• Persons derived from a common origin, gens (as descended from one ancestor): natio (as belonging to the same country, and possessing the same national characteristics; so that one gens may include many nationes): genus (a race distinguished by certain peculiar excellences or good qualities): populus (a society of free citizens, or of men united under one common government; the Latins also used nomen in this sense to designate some particular people defined by the context; e.g., Hannibal, inimicissimus nomini Romano, to the Roman people): foreign people, nationes, or gentes, exterae; populi externi.
• The inhabitants of a town, etc. populus (the people of all classes; distinguished sometimes from the principes or senatus, sometimes from the plebs): plebs (the lower orders; distinguished sometimes from the patricii, nobiles; sometimes from the populus): vulgus (the common people; i. e., not so much those of the lower ranks as those who are personally and individually inferior to others, being culpably ignorant, low-minded, or immoral): cives, civitas (the body of citizens): in the name of the people, publice: out of the pockets of the people, publice; publico sumtu; de publico (so that the people bear the expense): impendio publico (so that the people suffer loss): a man of the people, homo plebeius (in speaking of his descent): homo de plebe (in speaking of his actual position).

2. v. frequentare (incolis): to people a place with colonists, coloniam or colonos deducere, mittere aliquo (the former when a person himself leads the colonists to a place): peopled, frequens, celeber (populous; opposed to deseitus).