Certain gentes were considered patrician, and others plebeian. Many gentes included both patrician and plebeian branches. They elected their own officers, plebeian tribunes and plebeian aediles. The senate hesitated because of the enmity between senators and plebeian tribunes. The legacy of the patrician and plebeian distinction lives on in modern society. Threatening a radical escalation of the conflict between the plebeian assembly and the patrician senate. Ceres was patron and protector of plebeian laws, rights and Tribunes. Originally, laws passed by the Plebeian Council only applied to Plebeians. Usually, vetoes were handed down by plebeian tribunes. Bibulus, supported by three plebeian tribunes, obstructed the vote. Through Sulla's reforms to the Plebeian Council, tribunes lost the power to initiate legislation. They were assisted by two "aediles plebis", or plebeian aediles. Everything the plebeian possessed or acquired legally belonged to the gens. Paulina was a member of the plebeian gens Lollia. Robin Hood ballads a plebeian literature hostile to the feudal order.