POPULAR Copy link • POPULARAcceptable to the people, popularis (Cic.); in vulgus (☞ not vulgo) gratus; gratus, acceptus populo: a man of popular manners, homo communis (Cic.). In ordinary use, understood by all, ad sensum popularem vulgaremque or ad commune judicium popularemque intelligentiam (accommodates, Cic., De Or., 1, 23, 108; e.g., oratio); intelligentia a populari non remotus. Popular writings, quae scripta sunt indoctis; genus librorum populariterscriptorum (Cic., 5 Fin., 12).