- The
decemviri or
decemvirs (Latin for "ten men")
refer to
official 10-man
commissions established by the
Roman Republic. The most
important were those...
-
plebeians in
matters of
voting rights and
military discipline. Later, as
decemvir,
Claudius is said to have
behaved as a
lustful tyrant, with his attempt...
-
while relatively young; this is also
consistent with his
serving as a
decemvir thirty years later.
Julius also had a brother, Vopiscus, who held the consulship...
- with
cases concerning whether an
individual was free.
Originally these decemvirs were a jury of ten men,
serving under the
presidency of a magistrate,...
- 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...
-
became the
first month of the
calendar year
either under Numa or
under the
Decemvirs about 450 BC (Roman
writers differ). In contrast, each
specific calendar...
- year when
twelve months are displa**** in order)
during the time of the
decemvirs about 450 BC, when it was 29 days long. The 30th day was
added back during...
- Quinctius, son of
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus Kaeso Duillius Longus,
decemvir 450–449 BC
Kaeso Fabius,
character in 'Roma' by
Steven Saylor, pp. 283-338...
- vanquish, vanquishment, victor, victorious,
victory vir- man
Latin vir
decemvir, decemvirate, duumvirate, quadrumvirate, septemvir, septemvirate, triumvir...
- BC) and the
grandfather of
Marcus Cornelius Maluginensis (
decemvir in 450 BC, and
decemvir with
consular power between 450 and 449 BC). In 485 BC, he...
