What is "tribunes"

Usage examples of "tribunes".

They were junior military tribunes attached to the staff of Scipio Aemilianus, and their names were Gaius Marius and Publius Rutilius Rufus.

Ten tribunes of the plebs were elected to look after the interests of the plebs.

What on earth possessed those two fools to try to stand a second time as tribunes of the plebs when even the Gracchi came to grief?

December, saw all ten tribunes of the plebs march off to the temple of Jupiter Stator, Gaius Mamilius Limetanus in their lead.

In another month, there will be a new College of Tribunes of the Plebs in office.

Only the nine other tribunes of the plebs were allowed to proceed to the rostra, where they stood along its back with stern faces and silently debated whether it was going to be possible to interpose a veto and live.

College of Tribunes at my back to seek a mandate from you, the People, which the Senate will not give me!

Narbo hummed with irate fathers, vengeful brothers, giggling girls, lecherous legionaries, and tavern brawls, keeping the provost marshals busy and the military tribunes in a foul temper.

His detention was courteous enough, but he had been left in the charge of two military tribunes who were under orders not to let him out of their sight.

Caepio Junior and Drusus had been elected tribunes of the soldiers, and were to go to Further Gaul with Gnaeus Mallius Maximus.

Military tribunes are well and good, but I do not need to tell you that it is the centurions who hold the centuries and cohorts together.

June the consul Gnaeus Mallius Maximus left on the long march north and west, his two sons on his personal staff, and all twenty-four of the elected tribunes of the soldiers for that year distributed among seven of his ten legions.

People in their tribes, have the whole thing conducted by the tribunes of the plebs in an atmosphere of shouting, yelling, even rioting crowds!

Of course the whole House followed the tribunes of the plebs, leaving Scaurus and our dear friend Piggle-wiggle shouting to nothing more than a couple of hundred capsized stools.

A polite request to the College of Tribunes of the Plebs got everything going.