(In New York herald tribune, Apr. 28, 1928)

(In the Chicago daily tribune, June 5-9, 1922) © 5Jun22, A642292; 6Jun22, A642369; 7Jun22, A643196; 8Jun22, A643197; 9Jun22, A643198.

But if he has given us Memmius's own words, they must have rung in the ears of many an honest Roman like the trumpet-notes of that still more eloquent tribune whose body, ten years before, had been hurled into the Tiber.

(In Cincinnati commercial tribune, Apr. 8, 1928)

Since, however, no punishment was visited upon the latter, but they were all, on the contrary, appointed consular tribunes, they were filled with wrathbeing naturally quick to angerand, as they held the Clusini in contempt, started for Rome.

For M. Valerius Messalla, a young man of twenty-eight, held the chief command after Brutus and Cassius; and Horace, who was but three-and-twenty, the son of a freedman, and a youth of feeble constitution, was appointed a legionary tribune.

Marcus was consul, Lucius tribune, and Gaius praetor.

" Here is a green monkey perched on the extreme height of a microscopic tribune.

But he detested and mistrusted the mighty tribune of the people,the aristocratic demagogue, who, in spite of his political rancor and incendiary tracts, was the only great statesman of the day.

And again at Vespers, from the same tribune, he heard the peal of the new great organs in the dome, and the psalm-melodies rocking from side to side between the massed choirs; he glanced now and again at the royal tribune opposite, where, each beneath a canopy, the rulers of the earth sat together to do honour to the Lord and His Anointed.

A sanguine tribune might hope permanently to check a growing evil by fresh supplies of free labour.

The influence of classical models is apparent both in the construction and the detail of these basilicas; while the deeply grounded preference of the Italian genius for round arches, for colonnades of pillars and pilasters, and for large rectangular spaces, with low roofs and shallow tribunes, finds full satisfaction in these original and noble buildings.

As to the commands given to Cnaeus Pompeius, that most illustrious man, that first of men, they were carried by some turbulent tribunes of the people.

Men ask, what is the reason why I, or why any one of you, O conscript fathers, should be afraid of bad laws while we have virtuous tribunes of the people?

Meanwhile the remnant saved from the field of battle had been assembled by two able military tribunes, Appius Claudius and Publius Scipio the younger, at Canusium.

It had already, in the course of the previous period, been in great part transferred from the general to the burgesses;(13) in this period came the further step, that the whole staff-officers of the regular yearly levythe twenty-four military tribunes of the four ordinary legionswere nominated in the -comitia tributa-.

" Scarcely ever was the speech of a popular tribune more acceptable to the commons than this of a most austere consul on that occasion.

It was supposed that the Romans, who had returned to their habits of insubordination, would gladly submit to their favourite tribune.

For what was the object of threatening Lucius Cassius, a most fearless tribune of the people, and a most virtuous and loyal citizen, with death if he came to the Senate?

It was rejected on the first occasion almost unanimously: foolish or evil-disposed tribunes of the people complained of the senate, which would allow the citizens no rest; but the war was necessary and, in strictness, was already begun, so that the senate could not possibly recede.