office
Tribunus Plebis
tribune of the plebs
also: tribunatus, tribunate
Tribune of the plebs, the magistracy protecting the commons; a rung of the senatorial cursus, which Pliny held and recalls discharging quietly.
Reading notes
- The Letters §1.23.1 tribunate
The tribunate of the plebs, a sacrosanct office; Pliny argues its dignity should keep its holder from pleading.
- The Letters §2.9.2 tribunate
The tribunate of the plebs, a magistracy in the senatorial cursus held after the quaestorship.
- Panegyric to Trajan §95 my tribunate
The tribunate of the plebs, the office (held by Pliny c. AD 92) that protected the commons; here recalled as a magistracy he discharged with deliberate quietness under Domitian.