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Plebeian military tribunes served in 399, 396, 383, and 379, but in all other years between 444 and 376 BC, every consul or military tribune with consular powers was a patrician. [ i ] [ 15 ] [ 14 ] Beginning in 376, Gaius Licinius Calvus Stolo and Lucius Sextius Lateranus , tribunes of the plebs, used the veto power to prevent the election of ...
The following is a list of Roman tribunes as reported by ancient sources.. A tribune in ancient Rome was a person who held one of a number of offices, including tribune of the plebs (a political office to represent the interests of the plebs), Military tribune (a rank in the Roman army), Tribune of the Celeres (the commander of the king's personal bodyguard), and various other positions.
Marcus Lucretius (possibly Marcus Lucretius Gallus) was tribune of the plebs in 172 BC. In this year, after Lucius Postumius Albinus had recovered for the Roman state a large amount of Campanian land that had been misappropriated by private citizens, Lucretius brought forward a bill (ut agrum Campanum censores fruendum locarent) in the Roman senate proposing that the censors should rent out ...
Tribune (Latin: Tribunus) was the title of various elected officials in ancient Rome.The two most important were the tribunes of the plebs and the military tribunes.For most of Roman history, a college of ten tribunes of the plebs acted as a check on the authority of the senate and the annual magistrates, holding the power of ius intercessionis to intervene on behalf of the plebeians, and veto ...
The writer Pliny the Elder mentions a "Gnaeus Aufidius" who was a tribune of the plebs who was responsible for a Senatus consultum overturning the Roman law against importing African wildlife into Rome, allowing their use in the circus. However he does not mention when exactly this happened, so there has been some scholarly disagreement over ...
Plebeian Genucii appear as early as 476 BC, when a Titus Genucius was tribune of the plebs. If the gens was originally patrician, then the plebeian Genucii may have arisen as the result of intermarriage with the plebeians, or because some of the Genucii were expelled from the patriciate or voluntarily chose to become plebeians.
Because he had ignored a tribune's veto and incited violence against a consul, Cornelius was prosecuted twice in the following years. In 66 BC, two brothers, Publius and Gaius Cominius, indicted him under the lex Cornelia de maiestate. However, on the day of the trial, the presiding praetor failed to arrive, leaving Cornelius' supporters free ...
Tiberius Claudius Asellus (tribune of the plebs 139 BCE) Gaius Ateius Capito (tribune) Sextus Atilius Serranus Gavianus; Lucius Atilius (tribune 311 BC)