I. According to a division of the people by Servius Tullius, a citizen of the lowest class, who served the State not with his property, but only with his children (proles), a proletary: “qui aut non plus mille quingentum aeris aut omnino nihil in suum censum praeter caput attulissent, proletarios nominavit, ut ex iis quasi proles [id est quasi progenies] civitatis exspectari videretur,” Cic. Rep. 2, 22, 40; cf Liv. 1, 43; Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 16, 10, 1; “Enn. ib. (Ann. v. 189 Vahl.): proletarios lucrari plures,” Amm. 19, 11, 7: “proletarium capite censum, dictum quod ex his civitas constet, quasi proles progenie: iidem et proletanei,” Fest. p. 228 Müll.—*
II. Transf., adj., low, common: “sermo,” Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 157.
