The letter is written not earlier than the 10th of December, for the new tribunes for B.
The result was that the tribunes interrupted the procession, which led to fighting and bloodshed (Dio, 39, 65).
These fears came to nothing; the tribuneswere loyal to Cicero, and the consul Piso forwarded his recall.
Nevertheless, on these comitial days the tribunes say that they will bring forward the case of Gabinius.
For if the tribunes are angry with us, what hope can there be?
Of all the tribunes I think Racilius is by far the best: Antistius also seems likely to be friendly to me: Plancius, of course, is wholly ours.
The tribunes are excellent, and in Cornutus we have a quasi-Cato.
Footnote 530: The tribunes had no veto against the censors, they could only hinder them by the indirect method of obnuntiatio, declaring that the omens were bad, and so preventing business.
O noble father, you lament in vain: The tribunes hear you not, no man is by; And you recount your sorrows to a stone.
The Tomb of Andronic appearing; the Tribunes and Senators aloft.
People of Rome, and people's tribunes here, I ask your voices and your suffrages: Will you bestow them friendly on Andronicus?
Oh noble father, you lament in vaine, The Tribunes heare not, no man is by, And you recount your sorrowes to a stone Ti.
A stone is as soft waxe, Tribunes more hard then stones: A stone is silent, and offendeth not, And Tribunes with their tongues doome men to death.
Enter the Tribunes and Senators aloft And then enter Saturninus and his Followers at one doore, and Bassianus and his Followers at the other, with Drum & Colours.
People of Rome, and Noble Tribunes heere, I aske your voyces and your Suffrages, Will you bestow them friendly on Andronicus?
Enter Emperour and Empresse, withTribunes and others.
This levying the tribunes of the Commons sought to hinder; and perchance had done so, but there also came well-nigh to the walls of the city a great host of the Sabines plundering all the country.
They were two tribunes of the praetorians, but, notwithstanding their high grade, they were only young men of about twenty.
Twin brothers of the honorable house of the Aurelia, they had entered the army as centurions, but had soon been placed at the head of a thousand men, and appointed tribunes in Caesar's body-guard.
Andreas had then declared his intention of bringing the son of his former master to a place of safety, and the centurion had been prevailed upon by the young tribunes to open a way for the freedman through the sentinels.
They were not long compelled to remain in exile; a few months after their marriage news was brought to Carthage that Caesar had been murdered by the centurion Martialis, prompted by the tribunes Apollinaris and Nemesianus Aurelius.
To secure the commons in this new right, the tribunes were declared to be inviolable.
It was stipulated that they should elect magistrates from their own class, to be called Tribunes of the People, who should have the right to interpose an absolute veto upon any legal or administrative measure.
The power of the tribunes at first was merely protective.
After this adventure, he never again ventured abroad at that time of night, without some tribunes following him at a little distance.
People of Rome, and people's Tribunes here, I ask your voices and your suffrages: Will ye bestow them friendly on Andronicus?
A stone is silent and offendeth not, And tribunes with their tongues doom men to death.
A stone is soft as wax: tribunes more hard than stones.
When I do weep, they humbly at my feet Receive my tears, and seem to weep with me; And were they but attired in grave weeds, Rome could afford no tribunes like to these.
O noble father, you lament in vain; The Tribunes hear you not, no man is by, And you recount your sorrows to a stone.
That you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of tribunes and the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of horses and of them that sit on them: and the flesh of all freemen and bondmen and of little and of great.
And the kings of the earth and the princes and tribunes and the rich and the strong and every bondman and every freeman hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of mountains: 6:16.
Though there were tribunes in the kingly period, the establishment of the tribuni plebis as the guardians of the plebs is properly referred to the year B.
On this occasion the patricians consented to the election of twotribunes from the plebs.
And when he had finished and arranged everything that was necessary about such matters, he would read a book till the third watch, at which time the centurions and tribunes were used to come to him.
The elections of Tribunes in the time of Cicero were on the 17th of July (Ad Attic.
The Tribunes were elected at the Comitia Tributa, but they derived their powers by uninterrupted succession from the consecrated act (Lex Sacrata) done on the Holy Mount and confirmed after the overthrow of the Decemviral power.
According to Dionysius the first Tribunes entered on their office on the 10th of December.
Metellus Nepos and the other tribunes began to exercise their functions on the tenth of December.
The persons of the tribunes were declared to be sacred (sacrosancti).
The crown which was placed on one of his statues certain tribunes tore off, and the people followed them with loud expressions of goodwill and clapping of hands; but Caesar deprived them of their office.
Further, the early complaints cited by Livy as to the "two yokes" being "hardly enough to raise a roof on or to make a grave in" were addressed by the tribunes on behalf of plebeians to patricians who each had above five hundred yokes.
Loudly Lentulus bade him hold his peace; loudly the tribuneswho sided with the Senate party forbade him to read.
He reports that the Senate and consuls have declared the Republic in peril, that the veto of your tribunes has been over-ridden, and they themselves forced to flee for their lives.
This was the law, that the tribunes might always be ready to render help (auxilium) to the distressed.
Little enough can we who are tribunes do; you have neither voice nor vote, and Lentulus is your personal foe.
The ten tribunes had power to convene the people and Senate, propose laws and "veto" the actions of other magistrates.
And I would have you know that neither you nor Quintus Cassius are reckoned tribunes longer by the Senate; so by no such plea can you escape arrest.
Then cohort after cohort cried out that on this campaign they would accept no pay; and the military tribunes and centurions pledged themselves, this officer for the support of two recruits, and that for three.
The othertribunes darted angry glances at their newly arrived colleague.
Cæsar--whose tribunes the oligarchs had chased from the Senate!
Let the consuls, prætors, tribunes of the plebs, and men of consular rank see to it that the Republic suffers no harm.
Drusus followed Antonius over to the farther side of the house, where on a long, low bench[137] the other tribunes of the plebs were seated.
I hadn't expected that those excellent 'Optimates' would begin to murder tribunes quite so soon.
Why was there such a struggle to get the ten tribunes to bring in a bill allowing him to stand in his absence?
How does it help me that I came before the tribunes entered on office, when my coming at all does not help?
Or, if he employs the tribunes to interfere, yet keeps the peace, a political deadlock may be brought about.
What would one not give for the opinion of the financial members of the Committee about the famous Bank; and that of the legal experts about the proposed "tribunes of the people"?
It was agreed that their chiefs (they called them tribunes of the plebs) should have the right of protecting the plebeians against the magistrates of the people and of prohibiting any measure against them.
From that time all the judges were to be taken from the Senate, no law could be discussed before it had been accepted by the Senate, the right of proposing laws was taken from the tribunes of the plebs.
The two brothers, Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus, were of one of the noblest families of Rome, but both endeavored to take the government from the nobles who formed the Senate by making themselves tribunes of the plebs.
Men up above in the tribunes held their breath; some women began to whimper with excitement.
There was, of course, a great deal of shouting and a general stampede in the tribunes of the plebs.
The glare from the tribunes opposite seemed to sear the eyes, and from below there rose to the nostrils that awful sickening stench of human blood.
The tribunes of the rich were so disposed that the sun would never shed an unpleasant glare into them, and over that part of the Amphitheatre an awning of white and purple striped stuff threw a pleasing and restful shadow.
The Augustas all knelt too, and the patricians in the tribunes to right and left.
Rich stuffs covered with gold embroideries fell over the edge of these tribunes and fluttered lazily in the morning breeze; chairs and cushions were disposed there, and it was interesting to make vague guesses as to who would occupy them.
The tribunes of the people finally gained more power, and a resolution was introduced in the senate providing that a body of ten men should be selected to reduce the laws of the state to a written code.
To this a fierce opposition sprang up, and a compromise measure was adopted which allowed military tribunes to be elected from the plebeians, who had consular power.
They also recognized the inviolability of the tribunes of the people and of the aediles who represented them.
The first opinion seems conformable to the Roman civil law, the second to equity as it was urged by the tribunes of the people, L.
Some of the tribunes began to quibble, pretending that the people were released from their obligation.
Here thetribunes used to hold the assemblies of the plebs in the Prata Flaminia at the foot of the Capitol, before any buildings were erected as their meeting-place.
We need not dread from this liberty any such ill consequences as followed from the harangues of the popular demagogues of Athens and tribunes of Rome.
The tenth legion set the example, thanking Caesar through its tribunes for his generous confidence, and declaring that it was ready in every way to fight.
The tribunes he regarded as noxious busybodies, whose loose talk was dividing Rome into two parties.
Coriolanus could not see that the real cause of the division was not what the tribunes said but what the people suffered.
Then the rest of the legions commissioned their tribunes and chief centurions to apologize to Caesar; they had never hesitated or feared, and had never thought that they should meddle with their commander in the control of operations.
At last the tribunes accused him of trying to prevent their receiving the corn that had been sent to them by the city of Syracuse and of aiming at making himself ruler in the city.
Instead of that he attacked the tribunes and abused the people in terms of cruel scorn and contempt.
When he came back from his second term of service in Spain (134) he got himself elected as one of the tribunes of the people.
The appointment of these tribunesangered many patricians, and especially Coriolanus.
All the people now streamed after him, and the tribunes emptied themselves rapidly.
The praetors and tribunes held their offices, the governors their provinces, under Caesar's nomination.
He blamed the tribunes for insisting on what he had himself declared to be just.
On the following day, in the winter morning, the tribunes brought the body into the Forum.
As the vote was about to be taken, he and his tribunes rushed to the rostra.
They had driven the Germans over the Rhine; they had made Gaul a Roman province; and the Senate for answer had broken the constitution, and had set aside the tribunes because they spoke in his defence.
To leave the tribunes power to call the citizens to the Forum was to leave them the means of creating inconvenient agitation.
Senate or no Senate, it was decided that Gabinius's proposition should be submitted to the assembly, and the aristocrats were driven to their old remedy of bribing other members of the college of tribunes to interfere.
The tribunes had pressed him as Pompey's colleague.
The tribunes who had led on the mob were deposed, and suffered various penalties.
The tribunes were outbidding one another in extravagant proposals, while Caesar's legions, sent home from Greece to rest after their long service, were enjoying their victory in the license which is miscalled liberty.
Other tribunes would be chosen more amenable to influence, and his work could then be undone.
Caesar was elected military tribune as a reward for his services in Asia, and he assisted in recovering part of the privileges so dear to the citizens which Sylla had taken from the tribunes of the people.
Should these religious cobwebs be brushed away, the Senate had provided a further resource in three of the tribunes whom they had bribed.
Senators, legislators, and tribunes all co-operated in giving energy to his plans.
The wish of the nation is, that the government shall not be obstructed in its endeavors to act for the public good, and that the head of Medusa shall no longer show itself, either in our tribunes or in our assemblies.
So that the senate, the consuls, and the tribunes continuing to exist with undiminished authority were a check upon him and kept him in the right road.
Of the accidents which led in Rome to the creation of Tribunes of the People, whereby the Republic was made more perfect IV.
And though the tribunes withstood him, contending that the oath had been sworn to the dead consul and not to Quintius, yet the people under the influence of religious awe, chose rather to obey the consul than believe the tribunes.
For on their appointment, consuls and tribuneswere swept away, and express powers were given to the new magistrates to make laws and do whatever else they thought fit, with the entire authority of the whole Roman people.
Otherwise such an arrangement will be found defective and dangerous; as would have been the case in Rome, had it not been possible to oppose the authority of the tribunes to the obstinacy of the consuls.
Again, as to making laws, any of the tribunes and certain others of the magistrates were entitled to submit laws to the people; but before these were passed it was open to every citizen to speak either for or against them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tribunes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
