tribunus militum consulari potestate.

About tribunus militum consulari potestate

A consular tribune was putatively a type of magistrate in the early Roman Republic. According to Roman tradition, colleges of consular tribunes held office throughout the fifth and fourth centuries BC during the so-called "Conflict of the Orders". The ancient historian Livy offered two explanations: the Roman state could have needed more magistrates to support its military endeavors; alternatively, the consular tribunate was offered in lieu of the ordinary consulship to plebeians so as to maintain a patrician lock on the consulship.