Lanfranchi, Thibaud <br/><br/>
The Untouchable Body of the Plebeian Tribunes 

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<br/><br/> Among the magistrates of the Roman Republic, the tribunes of the plebeians are a special case: devoid of insignia or particular assistants, possessing nothing that distinguishes them from other citizens, they nonetheless enjoyed a very special status embodied in the sacrosanctitas that made their body a protected one. This article tackles thus the status of the tribunes’ body in the public space of Rome in order to show that it was a political body embodying all the originality of the tribunitian function.