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.
