decemvir

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

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

Virginius had returned to the camp, where the soldiers, having heard of the fall of the decemvir, proceeded to hit him, as usual, when down, renouncing the authority of Appius and his colleagues.

From The Comic History of Rome by Gilbert Abbott ? Becket

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

In the sketch of his life prefixed to his works, Niebuhr collates the friendships he himself mentions, with his fellow-poet Paulus Silentiarius, with Theodorus the decemvir, and Macedonius the ex-consul.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle

For this man, formerly distinguished at home and abroad, had been so altered by his office of decemvir and the influence of his colleagues that he chose rather to be like Appius than like himself.

From Roman History, Books I-III by Titus Livius

The "decemviri" were to have plenary power for ten years.

From The Life of Cicero Volume One by Anthony Trollope

The next day a decree of the senate was passed, that the decemviri should inspect the books relating to the celebration of games and sacred rites in honour of Apollo.

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

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

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 George Middleton

The books of the decemviri, we must suppose, were burnt with the oracles in 38 B.C.

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

The hard fate of Lucretia, Virginia, and the youth Publilius, freed them from the tyranny of their kings, decemvirs, and patrician creditors.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop

Under the sanction of a law of the decemvirs against libellers, Augustus exiled the satiric writer Cassius Severus, and he also destroyed the works of an historian named Labienus, on account of their seditious sentiments.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

But the tyranny of the decemvirs was directed against the wives and daughters as well as the men of the plebeians, as was now to be strikingly shown.

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

It was resolved that decemvirs should be elected without appeal, and that there should be no other magistrate during that year.

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

Though the decemvirs forbad them to speak on any other subject than that which they had submitted to them, they felt too much respect for Claudius to interrupt him.

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