They were both. At the beginning of the city most of the common soldiers were plebeian but the patricians were officers. This changed over time, and since the time of Marius, all free men were allowed into the army, patrician, plebeian or proletariat.
The Roman Patricians The Roman Citizens The Roman Plebeians. The Roman Slaves The Roman Soldiers
Patricians and Plebeians
the merchants are the plebeians
Patricians were frightened because without plebeians patricians would be helpless if an enemy struck at rome.
The plebeians were the commoners. The patricians were the aristocracy.
The Roman Patricians The Roman Citizens The Roman Plebeians. The Roman Slaves The Roman Soldiers
The soldiers were plebeians. The officers were patricians.
The patricians were the aristocracy and the plebeians were the commoners.
The patricians were the aristocracy and the plebeians were the commoners.
No the conflicts between patricians and plebeians did not lead to civil wars. The Conflict of the Orders between patricians and plebeians ended in the mid-3rd century BC. The Roman civil wars stared in the 1st century BC. The civil wars involved a conflict between the populares, a political faction which supported the cause of the poor, and the optimates, a conservative political faction which supported the interests of the aristocracy. They also involved personal rivalries.
The patricians were the aristocrats and the plebeians were the commoners.
Patricians and Plebeians
the merchants are the plebeians
Patricians were frightened because without plebeians patricians would be helpless if an enemy struck at rome.
Patricians were frightened because without plebeians patricians would be helpless if an enemy struck at rome.
The plebeians were the commoners. The patricians were the aristocracy.
The patricians were afraid because most of the population of Rome was plebeians and when the plebeians marched out of the city to camp at the end of the hill until the farms came to a halt. Without the plebeians, patricians feared that the army would be helpless if an enemy struck at Rome. The patricians had little choice but to compromise.