Marium fatigantem de profectione, simul et invitum et offensum sibi parum idoneum ratus, domum dimittit. Et Romae plebes litteris, qua de Metello ac Mario missae erant, cognitis volenti animo de ambobus acceperant.
2013 translation by J. C. Rolfe
He sent Marius home since the fellow kept pressing for his departure and since at the same time Metellus considered him unsuitable for service because of his discontent and their bad relations. At Rome, too, the commons, upon learning of the letters which had been sent concerning Metellus and Marius, had readily accepted the reports about both men.
Circumspectare omnibus fori partibus senatorem raroque usquam noscitare; curiam inde ac solitudinem circa decemviros intueri, cum et ipsi consensu invisum imperium et plebs, quia privatis ius non esset vocandi senatum, non convenire patres interpretarentur: iam caput fieri libertatem repetentium, si se plebs comitem senatui det, et quem ad modum patres vocati non coeant in senatum, sic plebs abnuat dilectum. Haec fremunt plebes.
1922 translation by B. O. Foster
Men looked about in every corner of the Forum to discover a senator, and seldom recognized one anywhere; then their glances rested on the Curia and the decemvirs sitting there alone. Meantime the decemvirs themselves explained the Fathers’ failure to assemble as owing to the universal detestation of their rule; the commons as due to their having no authority, being private citizens, to convoke the senate: a beginning, it seemed, was already being made towards the recovery of freedom, if the plebs would join with the senate; and if, even as the Fathers were refusing, when summoned, to attend the session, so they, for their part, would reject the levy. Such were the murmurs of the plebs.
Unus velut morbus invaserat omnes Italiae civitates ut plebes ab optimatibus dissentirent, senatus Romanis faveret, plebs ad Poenos rem traheret.
1940 translation by Frank Gardner Moore
One malady, so to speak, had attacked all the city-states of Italy, that the common people were at odds with the upper class, the senate inclining to the Romans, the common people drawing the state to the side of the Carthaginians.
c. 45 CE – 96 CE, Statius, Thebais 7.271, (Some manuscripts instead read "Neptunia proles" (a phrase used several times in the Aeneid), which is preferred by Hill.[2]):
Ecce autem clamore ruunt Neptunia plebes / Onchesti, quos pinigeris Mycalesos in agris
c. 45 CE – 96 CE, Statius, Thebais 1.561, (Manuscripts vary in this line between plural "litant", which would be a case of notional agreement, and singular "litat". The final syllable of the verb scans as heavy: this would be anomalous if the word is "litat", since the following word starts with a vowel. Lengthening of final syllables in this context is an attested poetic license, but one rarely used by Statius.):
