decemviri
- plural of decemvir.
Example Sentences
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The three speeches De Lege Agraria are concerned with the bill of P. Servilius Rullus for the appointment of decemviri with full power to buy and sell land and to establish colonies.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by Middleton, George
I do believe, if his story were impartialy transmitted, and the unprejudiced world wel possest with it, she would adde him to her nine worthies, and make up that number a decemviri.
From Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles by Various
When so much land would be thrown into the market it would be sold very cheap and would be sold to those whom the "decemviri" might choose to favor.
From The Life of Cicero Volume One by Trollope, Anthony
Let the decemviri perform sacrifice with victims after the Grecian fashion.
From The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26 by Livius, Titus
Besides decreeing, no doubt with the sanction of the pontifices, certain ordinary measures, the Senate referred the matter to the decemviri and the Sibylline 318books.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde
