decemvir

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, his office of decemvir and his colleagues had so changed, that he chose rather to be like to Appius than like himself.

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

But the name of the decemvir still carries terror with it, and the commons waver at the sound.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various

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

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

The decemviri all perished, either in prison or in banishment.

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

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

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 W. Warde Fowler

When these things were done, the decemviri sacrificed with the larger victims in the forum at Ardea.

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

Appius Claudius Crassus, one of the Roman decemvirs, appointed 451 B.C. to draw up a new code of laws.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various

The expectation of this, as the day of election approached, created a desire to appoint decemvirs again.

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

The same tribunes, Sextius and Licinius, being re-elected for the tenth time, succeeded in passing a law, that of the decemvirs for religious matters, one half should be elected from the commons.

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

But though the decemvirs had been spared from death by fire, they were not forgiven.

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

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