Tribune of the plebs
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Tribune of the plebs, tribune of the people or plebeian tribune was the first office of the Roman state that was open to the plebeians, and was, throughout the history of the Republic, the most import
The Secession of the People to the Mons Sacer, engraving by B. Barloccini, 1849.
Mons Sacer
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The Mons Sacer, Sacer Mons, or Sacred Mount is a hill in Rome, famed as the location of the first secession of the plebs, in 494 BC.
Pierre-Nicolas Brisset, View of the Ponte Nomentano (1837). The Mons Sacer rises behind a bridge crossing the Anio along the route of the Via Ficulensis, later the Via Nomentana.