Definition of tribus
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1.
LEM
tribus, tribūs
cf. tres
noun (f., 4th declension)
  1. a third part of the people (as orig. divided into Ramnes, Tities, and Luceres)
  2. [hence, in pen.] an hereditary division of the people, tribe (under the constitution of Servius Tullius, four for the city and twenty-six for the country districts; at a later date there were thirty-one country tribes)
Abbreviations
tribus ūs (dat. and abl plur., tribūbus, C., L.), f cf. tres, a third part of the people (as orig. divided into Ramnes, Tities, and Luceres)

— hence, in pen., an hereditary division of the people, tribe (under the constitution of Servius Tullius, four for the city and twenty-six for the country districts; at a later date there were thirty-one country tribes): illum quinque et triginta tribūs patronum adoptaverunt: a Romuliā tribu initium facere: fieri se pro tribu aedilem, received the vote of the tribe for the aedileship, L.: vocatis tribubus, L.: Africanus censor tribu movebat eum centurionem, expelled from the tribe: Grammaticas ambire tribūs, to canvass the Grammaman tribes, H.
 
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