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'''Proletariat''' is any social element or group which in some way is 'in' but not 'of' any given society at any given stage of such society's history. That is, it is used in the scenes of the Latin word ''proletarius'' from which it is derived. In Roman legal terminology, ''proletarii'' were citizens who had no entry against their names in the census except their progeny (proles). The following definition is given in the ''Compendiosa Doctrina per Litteras of Nonius Marcellinus'':  

'''Proletariat''' is any social element or group which in some way is 'in' but not 'of' any given society at any given stage of such society's history. That is, it is used in the scenes of the Latin word ''proletarius'' from which it is derived. In Roman legal terminology, ''proletarii'' were citizens who had no entry against their names in the census except their progeny (proles). The following definition is given in the ''Compendiosa Doctrina per Litteras of Nonius Marcellinus'':  

{{Cquote|'Proletarii dicti sunt plebeii qui nihil rei publicae exhibeant sed tantum prolem sufficiant.' <ref> Quoted by Bruns, C.C., in ,i) ''Fontes Iuris Romani Antiqui'', ed. 7 (Tübingen 1909, Mohr), Pars Posterior, p. 65.)</ref>}}

{{Cquote|'Proletarii dicti sunt plebeii qui nihil rei publicae exhibeant sed tantum prolem sufficiant.' <ref> Quoted by Bruns, C.C., in ,i) ''Fontes Iuris Romani Antiqui'', ed. 7 (Tübingen 1909, Mohr), Pars Posterior, p. 65.)</ref>}}

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