Yet, although these communities were essentially aristocratic in tone and constitution, the commonalty still retained some power in the Antonine age.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
You are born to the patrician leisure; you have the accomplishments and the clothes and manners and ideals; and we men are a natural commonalty, born to business, to newspapers, to cigars, and horses.
"April Hopes"
William Dean Howells Last Updated: February 27, 2009
His address to the commonalty, as citizens with a voice in the State, represents the progressive and permanent element in his politics.
"John Knox and the Reformation"
Andrew Lang