Note 366 — Chapter II · THE GROWTH OF THE REPUBLICAN CONSTITUTION

Liv. ii. 35 “contemptim primo Marcius audiebat minas tribunicias; auxilii, non poenae, jus datum illi potestati; plebisque, non patrum, tribunos esse.” Coriolanus was probably impeached before the Plebs as a hostis tribuniciae potestatis in consequence of his advice that the tribunate should be abrogated (Liv. ii. 34). See Rein Criminalrecht p. 484. Cf. Liv. ii. 56 (471 B.C.; the tribune seizes some nobiles who would not yield to his viator) “Consul Appius negare jus esse tribuno in quemquam, nisi in plebeium; non enim populi, sed plebis, eum magistratum esse.”