Tribuneship

• “Tribune of the People, and even the year of his Tribuneship, he passed in repose and inactivity; as well aware of the spirit of the times under”

  The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola

• “Tribuneship, and indeed in every other part of his life, was that infamous citizen C. Licinius Nerva; but he was not destitute of Eloquence.”

  Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.

• “We may add that Fannius himself was no contemptible Orator: for he pleaded a number of causes, and his Tribuneship, which was chiefly conducted under the management and direction of P. Africanus, was very far from being an idle one.”

  Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.

• “But the latter, for his turbulent Tribuneship, which he entered upon with a heart full of resentment against the great and good, on account of the odium he had brought upon himself by the treaty of Numantia, was slain by the hands of the Republic: and the other, being impeached of a seditious affectation of popularity, rescued himself from the severity of the judges by a voluntary death.”

  Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.

• “Senators were alone made eligible for the tribuneship, and no former Tribune could hold any curule office.”

  Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D.

• “Now came on the question of the Tribuneship of Clodius, in reference to which I will quote a passage out of Middleton, because the phrase which he uses exactly explains the purposes of Caesar and Pompey.”

  The Life of Cicero

• “You insisted upon the restoration of the Tribuneship; we yielded; we quietly saw Consuls of your own faction elected.”

  The American Union Speaker

• “_Conservative Senate_, composed of eighty members, self-elective, had the right of appointing the members of the Corps Législatif, the Tribuneship, and the Court of Cassation.”

  World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France

• “Tribuneship, the Commons struggled manfully for the removal of the grievances under which they labored; and, in spite of many checks and reverses, succeeded in wringing concession after concession from the stubborn aristocracy.”

  Lays of Ancient Rome

• “By availing himself of a singular crisis in public feeling, he had obtained the consent of the Commons to the abolition of the Tribuneship, and had been the chief of that Council of Ten to which the whole direction of the state had been committed.”

  Lays of Ancient Rome

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