The Comitia Tributa also received the right of deliberating and deciding upon all matters that were open to discussion and settlement in the Comitia Centuriata.
These laws made the Comitia Tributa into a really national legislature, embodying Patricians and Plebeians alike.
Tiberius Gracchus for the second time came before the comitia tributa as a candidate for election as tribune, were among the most tumultuous in all Roman political history.
Acting upon this report, the Senate directed the tribunes to call a meeting of the comitia tributa for the purpose of revoking the law relative to the colony at Carthage.
It is believed by some that the comitia tributa really came into existence with this law, and that previously the plebeians had voted by curies.
No means seems to have been adopted, however, for any concerted or effectual resistance, and none of his friends who attended the meeting of the comitia tributa went armed.
The tribunes generally presided over the comitia tributa and took the lead in securing the passage of laws by that body.
At first the laws passed by the comitia tributa were required to be confirmed by a vote of the comitia centuriata, but this requirement was abolished in 339 B.
It was finally agreed that the Tribunes should be restored, that the authority of the Comitia Tributa should be recognized, and that the right of appeal to the people against the power of the supreme magistrates should be confirmed.
Sulla repealed the Lex Domitia, which gave to the Comitia Tributa the right of electing the members of the great ecclesiastical corporations, and restored to the latter the right of co-optatio, or self-election.
This is what St. Paul says in his Epistle to the Romans: Ideo et tributa præstatis, &c.
Sidenote: History of the Comitia Tributa and Centuriata.
But he may be confusing things, and only mean that Sulla took the voting power from the Comitia Tributa and vested it in the Comitia Centuriata.
But as the State became more and more democratic, the Comitia Tributa was more used than the Comitia Centuriata, in which legislation was gradually confined to special matters assigned to them by law or custom.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tributa" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
