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tribuni plebis

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‘tribunes’, were the officers of the plebs first created in 500–450 bc (traditionally in 494, the date of the first secession of the plebs and their corporate recognition). The word ... ...

tribuni plebis

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Peter Sidney Derow

The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)

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... plebis (or plebi ) , ‘tribunes’, were the officers of the plebs first created in 500–450 bc (traditionally in 494 , the date of the first secession of the plebs and their corporate recognition). The word is evidently connected with tribus , but it is uncertain whether the tribunes were at first chiefs of the tribes who later became officers of the plebs (they are sometimes φύλαρχοι in Greek, but δήμαρχοι is standard), or whether the title imitated that of the tribuni militum already existing. The original number of the tribunes is...

tribūnī plēbis/tribunes

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The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World

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... plēbis/tribunes (of the plebs ), were the officers of the plebs first created in 500–450 bc (traditionally in 494 , the date of the first secession of the plebs and their corporate recognition). The original number of the tribunes is variously given; by 449 it had risen to ten. The tribunes were charged with the defence of the persons and property of the plebeians. Their power derived not from statute (initially, at least) but from the oath sworn by the plebeians to guarantee their sacrosanctitās , or inviolability. Elected by the plebeian...

tribuni plebis

tribuni plebis  

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‘tribunes’, were the officers of the plebs first created in 500–450 bc (traditionally in 494, the date of the first secession of the plebs and their corporate recognition). The word ...
Lucius Genucius

Lucius Genucius  

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(RE 5)tribune of the plebs (see tribuni plebis) in 342 bc and, according to some writers consulted by Livy (7. 42. 1), author of a number of reforming plebiscites ...
Quintus Petillius

Quintus Petillius  

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(RE 4, 11)Two tribunes (see tribuni plebis) of this same name are said by Livy, following Valerius Antias, to have prosecuted Scipio Africanus in 187 bc, and later to ...
Papirius Carbo Arvina, Gaius

Papirius Carbo Arvina, Gaius  

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(RE 40)son of Gaius (1) and cousin of Gaius (2) and Gnaeus (above), was an active tribune (see tribuni plebis) in 90 bc. He co-operated with the government of ...
Ovinius

Ovinius  

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(RE 1)Pompeius Festus 290 Lindsay records the bill of a tribune (see tribuni plebis) Ovinius which provided that the censors should enrol in the senate optimum quemque (‘the best ...
Valerius Soranus, Quintus

Valerius Soranus, Quintus  

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(RE 345)scholar and poet, and probably the tribunus plebis (82 bc? see tribuni plebis) put to death for speaking the secret name of Rome (The Magistrates of the Roman ...
Manilius Gaius

Manilius Gaius  

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(RE 10, cf. 23),elected tribune (see tribuni plebis) for 66 bc, hence entering office on 10 December 67, on the last day of 67 carried a law distributing freedmen ...
Marcus Octavius

Marcus Octavius  

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(RE 31)as tribune 133 bc (see tribuni plebis) vetoed the agrarian bill of Ti. Sempronius Gracchus (3) and, refusing (contrary to constitutional tradition) to withdraw his veto (see intercessio) ...
Licinius Stolo, Gaius

Licinius Stolo, Gaius  

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(RE 161) and, (RE 36)were reputedly plebeian tribunes (see tribuni plebis) from 376 to 367 bc and proposed: (1) the reservation of one consulship each year to ...
Licinius Macer, Gaius

Licinius Macer, Gaius  

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(RE 112),the Roman annalist (see annals, annalists), was tribune (see tribuni plebis) in 73 bc, when he agitated for popular rights (cf. Sallust, Historiae 3. 48); praetor in 68 ...
Vibius Pansa Caetronianus, Gaius

Vibius Pansa Caetronianus, Gaius  

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(RE 16)Roman general and politician. He served with Caesar in Gaul, defended his interests as tribune in 51 bc (see tribuni plebis), governed Bithynia in 47–6 and Cisalpine Gaul ...
Gaius Oppius

Gaius Oppius  

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(RE 8)as tribune of the plebs (see tribuni plebis) 215 bc, carried a law, occasioned by the exigencies of the Hannibalic War (see Punic Wars), imposing restrictions on women ...
Publilius Volero

Publilius Volero  

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(RE 10)reputedly tribune of the plebs (see tribuni plebis) in 472–1 bc. He is credited with (1) an exemplary assertion of the right of appeal to the people (provocatio) ...
Villius, Lūcius

Villius, Lūcius  

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Tribune of the plebs in 180 bc (see tribuni plebis), passed the first law to stipulate minimum ages for tenure of each (curule) magistracy (42 for the consulship); see magistracy, roman. This law may ...
intercessiō

intercessiō  

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‘interposition’, was the right of one Roman magistrate (see magistracy, roman) to veto the activity of another magistrate of equal or lesser authority. The possibility arose because magistrates were ...
Licinius Lucullus, Lucius

Licinius Lucullus, Lucius  

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(RE 102)first consul of his house (151 bc), tried to enforce the levy for troops for Spain so harshly that he was temporarily imprisoned by the tribunes (see tribuni ...
collēgium

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1 (1) Magisterial or priestly: a board of officials.2 (2) Private: any private association of fixed membership and constitution (see clubs, roman).The principle of collegiality was a standard feature ...
Vatinius Publius

Vatinius Publius  

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Tribune 59 bc (see tribuni plebis), sponsored the bills granting Caesar Cisalpine Gaul (see gaul (cisalpine)) and Illyricum (see illyrians), and confirming the eastern settlement of Pompey. He also ...

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