tribunale

trĭbūnal (moleste diligentibus permittamus et tribunale dicere, Quint. 1, 6, 17; yet trĭbūnāle is found Corp. Inscr. Lat. 206, 24), ālis, n. [tribunus].

I.

Lit.

1.

A raised semicircular or square platform, on which the seats of magistrates were placed, a judgment-seat, tribunal (cf.:

suggestus, sella): compleatur tribunal,

Cic. Brut. 84, 290:

popularis accessus ac tribunal,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 8, § 25:

praetor tribunal suum juxta Trebonii praetoris urbani sellam collocavit,

Caes. B. C. 3, 20; cf. Tac. A. 15, 29; Mart. 11, 98, 17:

eum de tribunali deturbavit,

Caes. B. C. 3, 21; Cic. Vatin. 9, 21:

(praetor) palam de sellā ac tribunali pronuntiat, Si quis, etc.,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 38, § 94:

quem ad se vocari et de tribunali citari jussit,

id. ib. 2, 5, 7, §

16: pro tribunali agere aliquid,

id. Fam. 3, 8, 21; cf. id. Pis. 5, 11:

qui dicunt apud tribunalia,

Quint. 11, 3, 134; cf. id. 11, 3, 156:

laudatum ex quattuor tribu nalibus,

id. 12, 5, 6:

nobis in tribunali praetoris urbani sedentibus,

Cic. de Or. 1, 37, 168:

sedens pro tribunali,

Liv. 39, 32, 11:

Fulvius magnā circumfusus turbā ad tribunal consulis venit,

id. 26, 22, 3; cf. Tac. A. 1, 75.—

2.

The elevation in the camp, from which the general addressed the soldiers or administered justice, Liv. 28, 27, 15; Tac. H. 3, 10; 4, 25; cf.:

regium (sc. Porsenae),

Liv. 2, 12, 6.—

3.

The seat of the prætor in the theatre, Suet. Aug. 44.—

4.

A tribunal erected as a monument to a deceased person of high rank:

sepulcrum Antiochiae ubi crematus (Germanicus), tribunal Epidaphnae, quo in loco vitam finierat,

Tac. A. 2, 83; Inscr. Orell. 4548.—

II.

Transf., in gen., a mound, dam, embankment:

tribunalia structa manibus ad experimenta altissimi aestūs,

Plin. 16, 1, 1, § 3.—

B.

Of the persons who sit on a tribunal, the magistrates:

omne forum quem spectat et omne tribunal,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 57.—

III.

Trop., height, greatness:

quid superest ad honoris mei tribunal et columen, ad laudis meae cumulum?

App. Flor. p. 356, 16.