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The Latin word for commoner(s) is plebs. Initially it applied to all citizens who were not aristocrats (patricians). When the rich plebeians were given the status of equite (equestrian cavalryman), which was a sort lower aristocracy, plebs ]came to refer to the people below these two social ranks. These were distinctions in Roman society. The other peoples who lived in the Roman Empire had their own forms of social distinctions

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Freedmen were slaves who were freed by their masters. They did not actually from a social class as such. They were former slaves.

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The freedmen were ex-slaves freed by their owner.

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A slave who earned his freedom. [APEX]

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The Patricians

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A slave who earned his freedom

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