10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DUUMVIRI»
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1
Temples, Religion, and Politics in the Roman Republic
By the terms of the lex Plaetoria, Postumius was appointed a duumvir, so these
inscriptions also give evidence of the existence of duumviri for the dedication of
sacred objects in Rome, a subject to which we now turn for further discussion. II.
2
Murder Was Not a Crime: Homicide and Power in the Roman Republic
duumVIrI PerdueLLIONIS The sole purpose of the duumviri perduellionis67
seems to have been to take responsibility for condemning citizens that a
presiding magistrate (or, perhaps, earlier a king) did not wish to take. The
duumviri appear in ...
3
A school dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities: abridged ...
92 COLUMBARIUM. the duumviri or quattuorviri, so called, as the members might
vary, whose functions may be compared with those of the consulate at Rome
before the establishment of the praetorship. The name duumviri seems to have ...
Sir William Smith, Charles Anthon, 1846
4
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities
The highest magistratus of a colonia were the duumviri (Cic. Agr. Leg. ii. 34, ad
Attic, ii, 6}, or quattuorviri, so called, as the numbers might van-, whose functions
may be compared with those of the consulate at Rome before the establishment
of ...
5
A Summary of the Roman Civil Law: Illustrated by ...
44- The descriptions of DUUMVIRI were various. Of the six sorts, only one had a
judicial character. The DUUMVIRI NAVALES were extraordinary naval
commissioners. The DUUMVIRI SACRORUM had the charge of the Sybilline
books.
Sir Patrick MacChombaich de Colquhoun, 1849
6
A Smaller Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: ...
DUPONDIUS. [As.] DUSSIS._ [As.] DUUMVIRI, or the two men, the name of
various magistrates and functionaries at Rome, and in the coloniae and
municipia. ( 1 ) Duumviri Juki Dicundo were the highest magistrates in the
municipal towns.
7
The scientific and literary treasury
The office, dlg- I Dlty, or government of two men thus ! associated, was called a
duumvirate, The '• Duumviri capitales were the judges in crl- I nihial causes. From
their sentence It was lawful to appeal to the people, who alone had the power of ...
Samuel Maunder, James Yate Johnson, 1866
8
A dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities, ed. by W. Smith
§23; FcsU ». v. Parici and Sororium, either that some of the ancient writers
confound the duumviri per- duellionis and the quacstores parricidii, or that, at
least during the kingly period, they were the same persons ; for in giving an
account of the ...
Greek antiquities, sir William Smith, 1842
9
Bibliotheca classica; or, A classical dictionary [by J. ...
Duronia, a town of the Samnitrs, Duumviri, two noble patricians at Rome, first
appointed by Tarquin to keep the Sibylline books, which were supposed to
contain the sate of the Roman empire. □□ These sarred books were placed in
the ca ...
10
A Plea for Livy: With Critical Notes on His First Book
Observe, that Livy imagines the 'duumviri' to.be an extraordinary commission ; . . .
observe, the strange construction that Livy puts on the words duumviri
perduellionem judicent. We should naturally take this to mean — ' let them pass
seutence ...
