Dell'auxilium plebis prima del tribunato: i presagi del nuovo potere nella narrazione liviana

This paper focuses on some chapters of the Livian story (Ab Urb. 2, 24-29) about the events of the biennium 495-494 BC. with the aim of identifying the forms of historical anticipation of plebeian tribunes’ power, when the plebs, as multitudo, with a new autonomous political consciousness, begins to protect their members from the abuses of the imperium power.