decemvir

The fact of his presiding at the meeting should have been a bar to his being elected a decemvir.

From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Titus Livius

The great man at Rome during the period of the Samnite wars was Appius Claudius—great grandson of the decemvir, and the proudest aristocrat that had yet appeared.

From Ancient States and Empires by John Lord

Beati sunt mortui: here rest, we know, the priestess Mammia, the decemvir Aricius, Libella the aedile, and a host of other citizens with whose names the student or the lover of Pompeii is familiar.

From The Naples Riviera by Herbert M. (Herbert Millingchamp) Vaughan

Could he be a decemvir, he could also be a consul.

From Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic by Andrew Stephenson

They were attentively listened to by the assembly: the voice of the decemvir was drowned with clamour.

From Roman History, Books I-III by Titus Livius

Then a lectisternium was celebrated for three days, the decemviri for sacred things superintending.

From The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26 by Titus Livius

The decemviri were ten men invested with supreme power, who were appointed to draw up a code of laws, all the other magistrates having first resigned their offices.

From Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) by Charles K. Dillaway

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 Anthony Trollope

This is the only way in which we can 327satisfactorily account for the direction to the decemviri to undertake the necessary sacrifices.

From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler

I do believe, if his story were impartially transmitted, and the unprejudiced world well possessed with it, she would add him to her nine worthies and make that number a decemviri.

From Among My Books First Series by James Russell Lowell

The decemvirs ruled with singular moderation, and submitted to the Comitia Centuriata a code of laws in ten headings, which was passed.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various

Reaching the city, the soldiers called on the commons to assert their liberties and elect new tribunes, the decemvirs having deprived them of these officials.

From Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris

An attempt to support the decemvirs now might cause the commons once more to secede to the Sacred Hill.

From Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris

The legions being enrolled, the decemvirs set about arranging among themselves who should set out to the war, who command the armies.

From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Titus Livius

Mem.‍But with length of time We gain a step in knowledge, and I look Forward to be one day of the decemvirs.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge