And there he found them holding their great caucus, which they hold every year in the North; and all their stump-orators were speechifying; and for a tribune, the speaker stood on an old sheep's skull.
The Roman draft system is, there's a given point in the year where all draft eligible men show up in Rome, and the consuls call names, actually it's the tribunes, call names off a list.
The law which enacted it was, like all other laws relating to the coin, introduced and carried through the assembly of the people by a tribune, and was probably a very popular law.
I mean, his praetorship gets off to a bit of a stuttering start because there's some immediate anti-Cicero feeling that is stirred up by one of the tribunes of 62.
She marries another tribune, this one called Curio, and they have a very brief marriage because he goes off to fight in the civil war between Caesar and Pompey.
Military tribunes were officers in the Roman army who ranked below the legate and above the centurion and was a traditional preparatory role for a career in the upper echelons of Roman Senatorial politics.
The Assembly nominated consuls, prefects, and senators, as well as the tribune, but these elections were controlled by the wealthy classes, who usually selected members of their own families for these positions.
In addition to senators, there were prefects, officials who took care of such routine matters as running the market and the fire brigade, and a tribune, whose job was to speak for the poor people.