tribuneship
Americannoun
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Combined with his ongoing tribuneship and direct rule over the provinces in which most of the Roman army was garrisoned at the time, Augustus’s practical control of the Roman state was unchecked.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
For a moment, even while I cried to them, and shook my hands to them to be silent, there flashed on me the things it meant; the things they had to give, power and tribuneship!
From The Red Cockade by Weyman, Stanley John
You insisted upon the restoration of the tribuneship; we yielded; we quietly saw consuls of your faction elected.
From The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant by Moore, John Hamilton
V. After the tribuneship he was a candidate for the greater ædileship.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Stewart, Aubrey
The latter became a candidate for the tribuneship; but being disqualified by his high birth, he got himself adopted into that for which nature had best adapted him—a very low family.
From The Comic History of Rome by Becket, Gilbert Abbott ?
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