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  • Caesar, and Antony were now revived in my mind; and though all I had just seen and heard be, in fact, but the semblance of liberty, and that, too, tribunitial liberty, yet at that moment I thought it charming, and it warmed my heart.

    Travels in England in 1782 2004

  • Upon this object, centred all princely honours; he was by Augustus adopted for his son, assumed Colleague in the Empire, partner in the jurisdiction tribunitial, and presented under all these dignities to the several armies: instances of grandeur which were no longer derived from the secret schemes and plottings of his mother, as in times past, while her husband had unexceptionable heirs of his own, but thenceforth bestowed at her open suit.

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

  • The possessors and a considerable part of the patricians complaining that a person at the head of the state was recommending himself by his tribunitial proceedings, and that he was making himself popular by giving away other persons 'property, had transferred the odium of the entire affair from the tribunes to the consul.

    The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius

  • Yet, withal, he plainly touches at the office of the high-priesthood, with which Augustus was invested, and which made his person more sacred and inviolable than even the tribunitial power.

    Dedication Vergil 1909

  • It is not an unusual misconception that this organic change in the government involved the simultaneous extinction of the tribunitial office and title.

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 Rossiter Johnson 1885

  • Subsequently to the entrance of the _dux_, _duke_, or _doge_ on the scene, and the shrinkage of the tribunitial power to more departmental or municipal proportions, the _master of the soldiers_, whatever he may have been before, became a subordinate element in the administration.

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 Rossiter Johnson 1885

  • This measure simply indicates the character of the opinions which were received at the time in Europe, as well as the strong consciousness on the part of the patriarch, and those who acted with him, of the expediency of throwing the voice and countenance of the Church into the scale alike against the tribunitial oligarchy and against local jealousies and prejudices.

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 Rossiter Johnson 1885

  • The late tribunitial ministry has transmitted to us as its monument little beyond the disclosure of a chronic disposition to tyranny and periodical fluctuations of preponderance.

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 Rossiter Johnson 1885

  • Republican Rome attempted to guard against excessive centralism by the tribunitial veto, or by the organization of a negative or obstructive power.

    The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny Orestes Augustus Brownson 1839

  • The establishment, after the secession of the plebs, of the tribunitial veto, which gave the plebeians a negative power in the state, there was an incipient division of the powers of government; but only a division between the positive and negative powers, not between the general and the particular.

    The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny Orestes Augustus Brownson 1839

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