rabble Copy link Outline I. A noisy crowdII. The lower class, the dregs of the people1. plēbēcŭla2. multĭtūdo, ĭnis, f. (usu. with some epith. or qualifying phr.)3. pŏpellus (rare)4. collŭvio, ōnis; -ies, ēi, f. (lit. refuse) • rabble: I. A noisy crowd: turba: Hor.: v. mob. II. The lower class, the dregs of the people: 1. plēbēcŭla: the wretched and starving r., misera ac jejuna p., Cic. Att. 1, 16, 11: the r. applauds, p. plaudit, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 186. 2. multĭtūdo, ĭnis, f. (usu. with some epith. or qualifying phr.): the ignorant r., imperita m., Cic. Off. 1, 19, 65: compare, multitudo de plebe, Liv. 5, 39. Epith.: multitudo egens et perdita. 3. pŏpellus (rare): selling trumpery rubbish to the shabby r., vilia vendentem tunicato scuta p., Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 65: Pers. 4. collŭvio, ōnis; -ies, ēi, f. (lit. refuse): to quit the present mob and rabble, ex hac turba ac c. discedere, Cic. Sen. 23, 84. Phr.: among the r. and dregs of the city, apud sentinam urbis et faecem, Cic. Att. 1, 16, 11: the r. of the Clodian sedition, quisquiliae seditionis Clodianae, Cic. Sext. 43, 94.