Then the tribunician college consisted of ten members, and it would be no very difficult thing to detach one of the number either by corruption or jealousy.
Thus, then, the unity and fusion which had been established by the tribunician laws disappeared and there again existed two peoples, the rich and the poor.
But by law the Senate could not convene on the third and fourth of the month, and the question of setting aside the tribunician veto went over until the fifth.
Decemvirs A further attempt was made to get rid of the tribunician power by securing to the plebeians equality of rights in a more regular and more effectual way.
Taking a connected view of these measures, we can scarcely attribute to them any other design than that of substituting for tribunician intercession a limitation of the consular powers by written law.
Thus the tribunician power was a copy of the consular; but it was none the less a contrast to it.
The unparalleled tale was told; the eyes of all were opened to the gap which the absence of tribunician protection had made in the security of law; and what the fathers had done their sons repeated.
Restriction of the consular and extension of the tribunicianpower were the objects contended for on the one side; the annihilation of the tribunate was sought on the other.
Marius knew that he had the people and the tribunician college with him, and that even the most perverse ingenuity could never construe the measure as a factious opposition to the interests of the State.
Baebius was immediately subjected to the terrorism which Octavius, his forerunner in tribunician constancy, had once withstood.
To answer that question in the affirmative was to admit that the tribunician power was dead; to answer it in the negative was to invite the retort that the auxilium was only one form of the intercessio.
The time for the tribunician elections was approaching, an active canvass was being carried on by the candidates, and the aggrieved landowners were throwing the whole weight of their influence into the opposite scale.
Caius answered this announcement with a fiery edict of his own, in which he inveighed against the consul and promised his tribunician help to any of the allies who chose to remain in the city.
Cato's regulations had been reversed and their vigorous author had been threatened with a tribunicianprosecution before the Comitia;[145] while Gracchus and his colleague had actually been impeached before a popular court.
The dreaded danger of Opimius's election was soon realised, and members of the newly appointed tribunician college were willing to put themselves at the orders of the senate.
One of the tribunician viatores, a freedman of Gracchus, was commanded to fetch him down.
He fell back on the majesty of the tribunician power, and threatened Cotta with imprisonment if he did not withdraw his resolution.
The position of Pontifex Maximus had become vacant, and by a tribunician bill the lex Domitia, revoked by Sulla, was again brought into effect and election to the priesthood entrusted to a comitia of seventeen tribes.
Trajan left no male heir and had associated no one with himself in the imperium or tribunician power.
In the same year Octavian was granted the tribunician sacrosanctity and the right to sit on the tribune's bench in the Senate.
Trajan received the tribunician authority and proconsular imperium (97 A.
At the time of the conferment of the tribunician authority, a series of senatorial decrees added or gave greater precision to the powers of Augustus.
In addition to these offices he enjoyed the tribunician authority (tribunicia potestas), that is, the power of the tribunes without the name.
The terms were rejected at Rome, and a tribunician proposal to try those guilty of misconduct with Jugurtha was ratified by the Assembly.
But the tribunician authority and the remaining powers of the princeps were conferred only by a decree of the Senate, confirmed, during the first century at least, by a vote of the Assembly of the Centuries.
At the death of Augustus, Tiberius by right of his imperium assumed command of the army and through his tribunician authority convoked the Senate to pay the last honors to Augustus and decide upon his successor.
Senate and people the tribunician authority (tribunicia potestas) for life.
Antoninus received the imperium andtribunician power and became the partner of Hadrian in the principate.
It still kept up the form of electing magistrates and enacting legislation, but its action was largely determined by the recommendations of the princeps and his tribunician authority.
The tribunician authority was regarded as being held for successive annual periods, which Augustus reckoned from 23 B.
However, to secure his election, he had to be exempted from presenting himself in person for his candidature in 49, and this permission was accorded him by a tribunician law early in 52 B.
Hadrian fell seriously ill and, having no children, adopted Lucius Ceionius Commodus under the name of Lucius Aelius Caesar, and clothed him with the tribunician authority.
However, all the odium against the tribunician power was directed against the author of this proceeding: and even his own colleagues rose up against him as vigorously as the consuls; and by their assistance the consuls held the levy.
The only thing that troubled the commons was by what means they should re-establish the tribunician power, that bulwark of their liberty, now so long discontinued, no mention in the meantime being made of the elections.
First of all the tribunician magistracy regained its earlier authority.
Re-establishing of the Tribunician Power They now went to work in all earnest to set aside the Sullan institutions.
The tribunician veto was interposed; Caesar contented himself with disregarding it.
Pompeius incomprehensibly abandoned of his own accord this completely secure position; with his consen and during his dictatorship (702) the personal appearance of Caesar was dispensed with by a tribunician law.
To lend to this new office at once a democratic and religious sanction, Caesar probably intended to associate with it once for all on the one hand the tribunician power, on the other the supreme pontificate.
My intention was to begin my own canvass just at the very time that Cincius[43] tells me that your servant starts with this letter, namely, in the campus at the time of the tribunician elections on the 17th of July.
The senate had voted that the elections should not be held till the law was passed: that, in case of a tribunician veto, the whole question should be referred to them afresh.
The practice seems to have been, in case of tribunician veto, to take the vote, which remained as an auctoritas senatus, but was not a senatus consultum unless the tribune was induced to withdraw.
The tribunician candidates have taken an oath to conduct their canvass according to the direction of Cato.
They brought tribunician intercession to bear against both laws; Saturninus ordered the voting to go on.
He needed only the tribunician power to make him the official collaborator of the emperor and his designated successor.
Tiberius beguiled him with friendly letters, dangling in front of him the hope that he had conceded to him the tribunician power.
Tiberius, who had just received the tribunician power, was transferred from Germany to the East, where the situation in Armenia demanded attention.
Tiberius was associated with him as Agrippa had been in the tribunician power, was married against his will to Julia, and sent to complete his brother Drusus's work in Germany (7-6 B.
The tribunician power, conferred in perpetuity, made it unnecessary to create a king or a dictator.
And wishing in some way [6] to rebuke them still more severely he bestowed upon Tiberius the tribunician authority for five years, and assigned to him Armenia, which was becoming estranged since the death of Tigranes.
First, before the people heard the letter, they were engaged in lauding the man, whom they supposed to be on the point of receiving the tribunician authority.
When Lucius Munatius and Gaius Silius had been registered as consuls Augustus reluctantly accepted the fifth decennial presidency of the State and gave Tiberius again the tribunician authority.
Encountering Sejanus, who had not yet gone in, he saw that he was troubled at Tiberius's having sent him no message, and encouraged him, telling him aside and in confidence that he was bringing him the tribunician authority.
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