- The
decemviri or
decemvirs (Latin for "ten men")
refer to
official ten-man
commissions established by the
Roman Republic. The most
important were those...
- with
cases concerning whether an
individual was free.
Originally these decemvirs were a jury of ten men,
serving under the
presidency of a magistrate,...
- ten
decemvirs had
shared a consul's
escort of
twelve lictors, each
receiving the
honour in rotation. But the
following year, each of the
decemvirs was...
-
nundinal calendar of Romulus,
calendar of Numa Pompilius,
calendar of the
decemvirs,
irregular Roman calendar, and
Julian correction.
Tables of the Roman...
-
chosen to
serve as
decemvir,
alongside several other ex-consuls, and the consul-elect,
Appius Claudius.
Taking office in 451, the
decemvirs ****embled the first...
-
Decemvirate (Latin:
decemviri consulari imperio legibus scribundis, '
decemvirs with
consular power for
writing laws') that drew up the
Twelve Tables...
- one of Rome's most
noble patrician families, and head of the
college of
decemvirs,
desires the
beautiful and
virtuous Virginia. He
initiates legal proceedings...
- the
appointment of a
committee of ten men,
known as the decemviri, or
decemvirs, to
serve for one year in
place of the
annual magistrates, and codify...
- this theory,
arguing that the
consular plebeians would not have let the
Decemvirs take
their power away that easily. Cf
Brennan 2000, pp. 24–25. He attributes...
- Republic. In the year 451 BC, a
board of ten men,
known as decemviri, or
decemvirs, was
appointed in
place of the
consuls in
order to draw up the tables...
