Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), T, Trapezūs, Tribūnal

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Tribūnal

（δικαστήριον).

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A raised platform at one extremity of a law court, upon which the curule seats of the judges and other persons of distinction who wished to attend the proceedings were placed (Verr. ii. 38; Suet. Tib. 33).

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In a camp, the tribunal was an elevated platform upon which the general sat to administer justice ( Hist. iv. 25); similar to the suggestum (q. v.).

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In a Roman theatre, the tribunal was an elevated seat in the pit (orchestra, Suet. Claud. 21), generally appropriated to the use of the praetor (id. Aug. 44).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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