12. As the tribunitian power (distinct from the annual office) was first invented for the Dictator Caesar (Dion, l. xliv. p. 384), we may easily conceive that it was given as a reward for having so nobly asserted, by arms, the sacred rights of the tribunes and people. Commentaries, De Bell. Civil. l. i.

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