Pompey, moreover, declared himself the advocate of the popular rights, and promised to restore the Tribunitian power.
Soon after his accession to the empire he married his daughter Faustina to Marcus Aurelius, procured for him the tribunitian and proconsular power from the Senate, and made him his associate in the labors of the government.
As Imperator he had the command of the Roman armies; and the tribunitian and proconsular powers which the Senate conferred upon him made him absolute master of the state.
One of Pompey's first acts was to redeem the pledge he had given to the people, by bringing forward a law for the restoration of the Tribunitian power.
Imperator, and received the tribunitian power for five years.
The tribunitian authority was again conferred upon him for five years [318], and a commission given him to settle the affairs of Germany.
He accepted of the tribunitian power for life, but more than once chose a colleague in that office for two lustra [147] successively.
After some interval, he was chosen consul a second time, and held the tribunitian authority during five years.
One instance only is mentioned, in which he appeared to exercise his tribunitian authority.
Nor would he for a long time accept of the tribunitian authority, or the title of Father of his Country.
Footnote 20: The first and splendid period of Rienzi, his tribunitian government, is contained in the xviiith chapter of the Fragments, (p.
The fifteen tribunitian laws may be found in the Roman historian (whom for brevity I shall name) Fortifiocca, l.
Colonna, himself, and the Roman people, the glory of the day, which Villani likewise (l.
The remains of the Latins were driven from their last possessions: he assaulted without success the suburb of Galata; and corresponded with a perfidious baron, who proved unwilling, or unable, to open the gates of the metropolis.
And they may be promiscuously chosen out of any classes, provided that the same person shall not be capable of bearing the tribunitian honor twice in the term of one galaxy.
The commons were only devising by what means they should re-establish the tribunitian power, that bulwark of their liberty, a thing now so long discontinued.
Then both the tribunitian power and the liberty of the commons being firmly established, the tribunes now deeming it both safe and seasonable to attack individuals, single out Virginius as the first prosecutor and Appius as defendant.
Wherefore they should first determine in their minds what choice they would make, then declare that choice at the tribunitian elections.
The consuls denied "that tribunitian frenzies could any longer be endured; that they were now come to a crisis; that more hostilities were being stirred up at home than abroad.
The voice of the men, and more especially of Icilius, entirely turned on the tribunitian power, on the right of appeal to the people which had been taken from them, and on the indignities thrown upon the state.
This war being concluded, a tribunitian war at home alarms the senate.
Pompey, in particular, promised to restore the tribunitian power.
He adopted him as his successor, and invested him with the tribunitian power.
The inscriptions on the Imperial coins contain in an abbreviated form the date of their issue, calculated by the number of times which the Tribunitia Potestas, or Tribunitian power, had been conferred upon the emperor.
Now, as Trajan had the Tribunitian power for the first time in A.
Footnote 229: Sulla had not abolished the tribunitian office, but he had deprived the tribunes of the chief part of their power.
It is not possible within the compass of a note to trace the history of the gradual increase of the tribunitian power (tribunitia potestas): such a subject is a large chapter in the history of Rome.
And indeed, if he has legally received the tribunitian power by the votes of a majority of the tribes, how is it that he cannot even still more legally be deposed by the vote of all the tribes?
On that occasion he traced the Roman tribunitian power, and considered it a cure for all the disorders to which the Roman state had been subject, and the cause to which all her subsequent greatness was to be attributed.
Footnote: "This assumption (says Burke) of the Tribunitianpower by the Sovereign was truly alarming.
But what shall we reply to the medals, undoubtedly genuine, which reckon the fifth year of his tribunitian power?
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