tribunes
Plebeian elected defenders
Tribunes were elected officials in ancient Rome who represented the common people (plebeians) against the aristocracy.
They held veto power over laws and could protect citizens from arbitrary state action.
The term extends to anyone who champions popular causes or defends ordinary people against the powerful: a tribune of the working class.
A tribune is also an elevated platform or gallery, especially in a church—a place from which to address the public.
Diplomat in foreign city
- magistrateCivil judicial officer
- senateLegislative governing body
- praetorRoman judicial magistrate
- plebeianOrdinary, unrefined person
veto · assembly · sacrosanct · forum · legislation · curia · patrician · imperium
Ordinary citizens, untitled
- populaceInhabitants of a place
- citizensMembers of a nation
- advocacyPleading for a cause
- representationDepiction or likeness
grievances · protection · sacrosanctity · intercession · plebiscite · assembly · rights · class
Solid mass, or impede
- intercedeIntervene on behalf
- nullifyMake of no effect
- obstructBlock or hinder passage
- prohibitFormally disallow
overrule · invalidate · sacrosanct · inviolable · restraint · check · intervention · protection
Printed periodical of current events
- platformRaised flat structure
- mastheadNewspaper's ownership box
- editorialPublication's official viewpoint article
- publicationIssued written material
press · Chicago · voice · opinion · media · daily · broadsheet · readership
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Diplomat in foreign city
- magistrateCivil judicial officer
- senateLegislative governing body
- praetorRoman judicial magistrate
plebeian · veto · assembly · sacrosanct · forum · legislation · curia · patrician · imperium · intercession
commoners
Ordinary citizens, untitled
representation · grievances · protection · sacrosanctity · intercession · plebiscite · assembly · rights · class · inequality
block
Solid mass, or impede
prohibit · overrule · invalidate · sacrosanct · inviolable · restraint · check · intervention · protection · halt
newspaper
Printed periodical of current events
- platformRaised flat structure
- mastheadNewspaper's ownership box
- editorialPublication's official viewpoint article
publication · press · Chicago · voice · opinion · media · daily · broadsheet · readership · columnist
legion
Great number, or soldiers
- officerAuthority figure in uniform
- commanderPerson with authority over others
- centurionRoman army officer
cohort · rank · cavalry · infantry · staff · campaign · soldier · military · equestrian · appointment
- Roman RepublicansCicero, Caesar, Pompey, Brutus, Cassius
- Ancient RomeRome, Julius Caesar, Caesar, gladiator, gladiators
- Ancient RomansJulius Caesar, patricians, consuls, Marcus Aurelius, Nero
- officialsofficial, officials, bailiff, bureaucrat, congressman
- Italian HistoryRome, Venice, Florence, Naples, Sicily
- Roman studiesAugustus, Caesar, Cicero, emperors, consuls
tribunesaristocrats
Hereditary ruling class
oligarchs · patrician class · elites · nobility · ruling class
tribunestyrants
Oppressive absolute rulers
despots · autocrats · dictators · oppressors · authoritarians
- military tribunalsArmed forces judicial bodies
- war tribunalsBodies prosecuting combat crimes
- war crimes tribunalCourt for battlefield violations
- Chicago TribuneIllinois metropolitan daily paper
- international tribunalMultinational judicial institution
- criminal tribunalCourt handling serious offenses