[195] This position corresponds exactly with that of the Sudras and the existing impure castes, who have to live outside the village and cannot enter or even approach Hindu temples.
M.de Coulanges considers that the plebeians were to a large extent made up of conquered and subjected peoples.

An asylum was also established at Rome for broken men and outlaws from other cities, with a view to increasing the population and strength of the state.

Subsequently the class of clients became absorbed among the plebeians.
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The binding social tie in the city-states.
Thus the gradation of society in the city-states of Greece and Italy, the account given above being typical of them all, is seen to correspond fairly closely with that of the Hindus, as exemplified in the Hindu classics and the microcosm of Hindu society, the village community.

It is desirable, therefore, to inquire what was the tie which united the members of the _gens_, the _curia_ or _phratry_, and the city, and which distinguished the patricians from the plebeians.