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  • Though there were knights of the First Class aplenty between the far poorer Suburanites, few of them held a status above tribunus aerarius, and few the kind of political contacts which imperiled their lives now that Sulla was in power.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • The inscription above quoted (_divi Vespasiani_ shows that its date is after A.D. 79, and probably not long after) informs us that Juvenal was (1) 'tribunus cohortis I.

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • L. Bestia tribunus plebis contione habita quereretur de actionibus Ciceronis, bellique gravissimi invidiam optimo consuli imponeret; eo signo [211] proxima nocte cetera multitudo conjurationis suum quisque negotium exequeretur.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Ubi quisque legatus aut tribunus curabat, eo acerrime niti, [319] neque alius in alio magis quam in sese [320] spem habere: pariterque oppidani agere; oppugnare aut parare omnibus locis, avidius alteri alteros sauciare quam semet tegere, clamor permixtus hortatione, laetitia, gemitu, item strepitus armorum ad coelum ferri, tela utrimque volare.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Ac ni G. Memmius, tribunus plebis designatus, vir acer et infestus potentiae nobilitatis, populum Romanum edocuisset id agi, ut per paucos factiosos Jugurthae scelus condonaretur, profecto omnis invidia prolatandis consultationibus dilapsa foret: tanta vis gratiae atque pecuniae regis erat.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • 'Helvius Cinna tribunus plebis,' etc.; and he is probably identical with the person mentioned _ibid. _ 85, as put to death in mistake for a man of the same name shortly after the murder of Caesar: 'Plebs statim

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Having been elected one of the _pontifices_ in the room of his uncle, C. Aurelius C.tta, he returned to Rome in 74, and soon became a _tribunus militum_.

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • His studies were interrupted by the civil war; he joined Brutus (who came to Athens in August, B.C. 44), was by him appointed _tribunus militum_, and took part in the battle of Philippi, B.C.

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Sallust was of plebeian family, as is seen from the fact that he was afterwards _tribunus plebis_.

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Homo militaris, quod amplius annos triginta tribunus aut praefectus aut legatus aut praetor cum magna gloria in exercitu fuerat, plerosque ipsos factaque eorum fortia noverat; ea commemorando militum animos accendebat.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

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