- The
decemviri or
decemvirs (Latin for "ten men")
refer to
official ten-man
commissions established by the
Roman Republic. The most
important were those...
-
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...
- 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...
- plebeians. The
decemvirs then
continued in
office the
following year,
without calling for new elections.
Public resentment of the
decemvirs and many of the...
- the
decemvirs turned to
Cornelius for his opinion, who
advocated for the
measures of the
decemvirs and
reproached the
detractors of the
decemvirs as being...
- 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...
-
nundinal calendar of Romulus,
calendar of Numa Pompilius,
calendar of the
decemvirs,
irregular Roman calendar, and
Julian correction.
Tables of the Roman...
-
traditions and Gr**** models. One of the
decemvirs was Gaius' nephew,
Appius Claudius Cr****us. In
their first year, the
decemvirs published ten
tables of laws, to...
-
patricians and by plebeians, like Merenda. At the
instigation of Cr****us, the
decemvirs maintained their power illegally for
another year,
refusing to proceed...
