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...
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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...
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Cursus honorum (section Tribune of the Plebs)
limited by the decrees of the Senate or the people's assemblies, and the Tribune of the Plebs was unable to veto their acts as long as the governor remained...
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Plebeian council (redirect from Council of the Plebs)
districts or tribes. The Plebeian Council usually met in the well of the Comitium and could only be convoked by the tribune of the plebs. The patricians were...
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Publius Sulpicius Rufus (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
prosecution of a former tribune of the plebs, Gaius Norbanus. This was his first major public performance, and he continued working as an advocate in the courts...
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Catilinarian conspiracy (redirect from Conspiracy of Cataline)
the plebs. One of the tribunes, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos, sought to bring Cicero up on charges for executing citizens without trial. The senate...
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Secessio plebis (redirect from Secession of the plebs)
plebis (withdrawal of the commoners, or secession of the plebs) was an informal exercise of power by Rome's plebeian citizens between the 5th century BC and...
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shifting practical power from the patricians to the plebeians. The law transferred the election of the tribunes of the plebs to the Tribal Assembly (comitia...
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to run for the office of tribune of the plebs) and the lex curiata de imperio which granted imperium to senior Roman magistrates under the Republic, likely...
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Gaius Cassius Longinus (redirect from Cassius (assassin of Caesar))
suicide after being defeated by Mark Antony. Cassius was elected as tribune of the plebs in 49 BC. He opposed Caesar, and eventually he commanded a fleet...
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