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Tribune of the plebs, tribune of the people or plebeian tribune (Latin: tribunus plebis) was the first office of the Roman state that was open to the plebeians, and was, throughout the history of the Republic, the most important check on the power of the Roman Senate and magistrates.
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 ...
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. Unless otherwise noted all ...
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 ...
When Asellus was tribune of the plebs in 139 BCE, he accused Scipio before the people; [4] [5] and the writer Aulus Gellius makes a quotation from the fifth oration of Scipio against Asellus, which may have been delivered in this year. [6]
The Plebeians seceded to the Janiculum Hill, and to end the secession, a dictator named Quintus Hortensius was appointed. Hortensius, a plebeian, passed the lex Hortensia which ended the requirement that an auctoritas patrum be passed before any bill could be considered by either the Plebeian Council or the Tribal Assembly. [24]
The patricians freed some of the plebs from their debts and conceded some of their power by creating the office of the Tribune of the Plebs. [5] This office was the first government position to be held by the plebs, since at this time the office of consul was held by patricians solely.
Titus Labienus (c. 100 BC – 17 March 45 BC) was a high-ranking military officer in the late Roman Republic.He served as tribune of the Plebs in 63 BC. Although mostly remembered as one of Julius Caesar's best lieutenants in Gaul and mentioned frequently in the accounts of his military campaigns, Labienus chose to oppose him during the Civil War and was killed at Munda.