What could ex tribune run for along the cursus honorum?

**crazyorc** · August 17, 2009, 06:15 AM

I only know Sulla banned ex tribune from holding any offcial posts, but how about the times ahead of Sulla and did Pompey and Crassus revoke Sulla's decision?

**Marie Louise von Preussen** · August 17, 2009, 06:24 AM

Sulla's changes were quickly reversed, but the deterioration of the Republican state had been going on steadily even after that.

As for Tribunes, they would either become Quaestores, Praetores, or not advance further in the Cursus. As time went on the position became more and more the haven of subordinates like Curio who were keen in making sure that the policy of their great masters was followed, and finally the Tribunician privilege was merged with Imperial power.

**crazyorc** · August 17, 2009, 06:40 AM

So if one tribune wanna be selected to consul, he must firstly run for quaestor, and then aedile, praetor and eventually consul?

**DAVIDE** · August 17, 2009, 08:01 AM

Originally Posted by crazyorc

So if one tribune wanna be selected to consul, he must firstly run for quaestor, and then aedile, praetor and eventually consul?

patricians could step forward directly to praetor, skipping the tribune phase. Plebians needed to become tribune, to make a political career. A patrician aged 33 could be elected as praetor urbanus or praetor peregrinus or pretor aerarii

**pannonian** · August 18, 2009, 11:21 AM

Originally Posted by davide.cool

patricians could step forward directly to praetor, skipping the tribune phase. Plebians needed to become tribune, to make a political career. A patrician aged 33 could be elected as praetor urbanus or praetor peregrinus or pretor aerarii

Patricians couldn't run for tribune of the plebs anyway - Clodius had to get himself adopted by a plebeian, thus becoming a plebeian himself, before he could be elected as tribune. Both patricians and plebeians could skip aedileship, which ran various public institutions in Rome.