trĭbūnal — Lewis & Short
trĭbūnal (moleste diligentibus permittamus et tribunale dicere, trĭbūnāle is found Corp. Inscr. Lat. 206, 24), ālis, n.tribunus.
Quint. 1, 6, 17; yetI 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.,Cic. 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.