• A military tribune (from Latin tribunus militum 'tribune of the soldiers') was an officer of the Roman army who ranked below the legate and above the centurion...
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    were the tribunes of the plebs and the military tribunes. For most of Roman history, a college of ten tribunes of the plebs acted as a check on the authority...
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    consular tribunes elected were patrician. Some modern scholars believe the consular tribunes were elected to support Rome's expanded military presence...
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  • Tribune of the plebs, tribune of the people or plebeian tribune (Latin: tribunus plebis) was the first office of the Roman state that was open to the...
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  • confusion with the political "tribunes of the people"; in addition, they must not either be confused with the "military tribunes with consular authority",...
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    Legate (ancient Rome) (category Military ranks of ancient Rome)
    recruit. The legate of a Roman Republican army was essentially a supreme military tribune, drawn from among the senatorial class of Rome (usually a consul or...
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    his political prospects, and a successful military career might culminate in the office of military tribune, to which 24 men were elected by the Tribal...
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  • office to represent the interests of the plebs), Military tribune (a rank in the Roman army), Tribune of the Celeres (the commander of the king's personal...
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    ("new man") at Rome. His grandfather, Gaius Octavius, fought as a military tribune in Sicily during the Second Punic War. His father, Gaius Octavius,...
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    most famous example. Flamininus' career started in 208 as military tribune, a junior military position. He served under the five time consul Marcus Claudius...
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  • in 208 BC. However, more recent scholarship has concluded that the military tribune and the consul were the same person, and that his father was the praetor...
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    who was a military tribune in 181 BC and the Sextus who was consul in BC 157 were father and son. While chronology suggested that the tribune might be...
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    political family of senatorial rank, Agricola began his military career as a military tribune under governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus. In his subsequent...
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    of the election of military tribunes at the Aventine, Icilius, thinking that these men would then be elected as plebeian tribunes and wanting to become...
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  • Look up Tribune, tribune, tribun, or tribunate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tribune was a title shared by several political and military offices...
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    Lucius Valerius Flaccus, he was brought to Rome. He was successively military tribune (214 BC), quaestor (204), aedile (199), praetor (198), consul (195)...
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    unnamed Ligurian slave. Two years later, in 216 BC, Scipio served as military tribune. He survived the disastrous Battle of Cannae – his father-in-law, the...
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  • The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1847, and formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper"...
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  • American fictional Biblical epic film that tells the story of a Roman military tribune who commands the unit that is responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus...
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  • Furius was from the gens Furia patrician family in Rome. Purpureo was a military tribune in 210 BC during the Second Punic War. After the Battle of Numistro...
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    Praetorian Guard (category Military units and formations established in the 1st century BC)
    departing to Rome. Nevertheless, all tribunes were combat veterans with extensive military experience. Each tribune served in Rome for one year, following...
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    Imperial Roman army (category Military of ancient Rome)
    was under six equestrian military tribunes who took turns to command it in pairs. But in the late Republic, military tribunes were eclipsed by higher-ranking...
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  • career path of Roman elites, something acquired while working as military tribunes managing foraging expeditions, and reinforced in later positions....
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  • welfare of Septimius Severus and his family in Lyon while serving as military tribune in the Legio I Minervia, which would date his commission to the early...
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    was supposedly replaced with a board of consular tribunes, which was elected whenever the military needs of the state were significant enough to warrant...
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    annulled five years later in 445 BC by a tribune of the plebs.[page needed] In 444 BC, the office of military tribune with consular powers was created. The...
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  • rope-maker from Thurii. During the Second Punic War, Octavius served as military tribune and participated in the disastrous battle of Cannae, being one of few...
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  • The military history of ancient Rome is inseparable from its political system, based from an early date upon competition within the ruling elite. Two consuls...
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  • rise to any importance. The great-grandfather of Augustus served as a military tribune during the Second Punic War, and survived the Battle of Cannae; however...
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    He began with the powers of a Roman consul, combined with those of a Tribune of the plebs; later added the role of the censor and finally became pontifex...
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