[1747] Tac. Ann. vi. 47 [53] (in A.D. 37 a woman was accused of majestas) “qua damnata cum praemium accusatori decerneretur, Junius Otho tribunus plebei intercessit, unde ... mox Othoni exitium.” Rusticus Arulenus, a flagrans juvenis, offered to veto the decree of the Senate which condemned Thrasea Paetus in A.D. 66 (xvi. 26).
[1748] ib. xiii. 28 “inter Vibullium praetorem et plebei tribunum Antistium ortum certamen, quod immodestos fautores histrionum et a praetore in vincla ductos tribunos omitti jussisset.”
[1749] Tac. Hist. ii. 91 (Vitellius, when Emperor, attacked by Helvidius Priscus in the Senate) “commotus ... non tamen ultra quam tribunos plebis in auxilium spretae potestatis advocavit.”
[1750] In A.D. 56 they were forbidden “vocare ex Italia cum quibus lege agi posset” (Tac. Ann. xiii. 28). See Appendix.
[1751] Tac. l.c.
[1752] Juvenal vii. 228 “Rara tamen merces, quae cognitione tribuni Non egeat.” The words doubtless mean “which does not lead to the appellatio.” In such a case even the Republican tribunes took “cognisance” of the merits of the appeal. The explanation that the tribunes were now given some extraordinary jurisdiction in civil cases is unnecessary.
[1753] p. 365.
[1754] Dio Cass. liv. 26.
[1755] ib. lx. 11.
[1756] e.g. Cod. 6, 60, 1 (A.D. 319) “Imp. Constantinus A. consulibus, praetoribus tribunis plebis senatui salutem.”