Defender of people's rights

Usage examples of tribune.

On the one hand, he was conservative architecturally, preferring Gothic buttresses as a means of support, and his attempt to raise the buttresses of the tribunes may have been not only out of concern for visibility but also an attempt to use the tribunes and buttresses as supporting members for the dome.

The civil offices of consul, of proconsul, of censor, and of tribune, by the union of which it had been formed, betrayed to the people its republican extraction.

Dwyrin had not left the inner camp, but he had heard Blanco and the tribune discussing the extension of the great ditch that bounded the encampment and the raising of many new tents.

The tribune and Blanco, by turns, drilled them on the myriad details of the Legion.

The moment Plancus Bursa and Pompeius Rufus are out of office as tribunes of the plebs, we intend to prosecute them for inciting violence.

A dour and silent man who had recently entered office as a tribune of the plebs, Plancus Bursa spoke up in his passionless way.

At the moment, Locusta was under house arrest in her dwelling near the Palatine, guarded by a tribune who was directly responsible to the empress.

At least the elections would go ahead now, with the tribunes of the plebs set for the day before the Nones and the quaestors on the Nones, the day they were supposed to enter office.

Tribune of the plebs for the second time, Lucius Appuleius Saturninus dominated the college completely, and exploited the fear the death of Quintus Nonius had provoked to further his own legislative ends.

Though he kept denying strenuously any implication in the murder, he kept dropping little remarks in private to his fellow tribunes of the plebs which gave them cause to wonder if they might not end up as Quintus Nonius did, should they attempt to thwart him.

Gabinius had returned to his perch on the end of the bench where the tribunes of the plebs sat, and watched bright-eyed as the consul and the consular went their rounds, soothing, clucking, persuading men to put their behinds back on their stools.

At first the place reminded him of Via Salaria in Rome, a mausoleum for Lucilius Peto, a wealthy military tribune and prefect of the smiths and the cavalry.

Hence through Lucius Antonius, his brother, who was tribune, he introduced a measure that considerable land be opened for settlement, among the parcels being the region of the Pontine marshes, which he stated had already been filled and were capable of cultivation.

Being elected by the Comitia Populi Tributa, the Whole People, these military tribunes were true and proper magistrates.

Braving the displeasure of the assembly, he mounted the tribune, resigned the Presidentship, renounced his seat as a deputy, and threw aside his robes.