decemvir

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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 all perished, either in prison or in banishment.

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

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

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 other decemvirs, with M. Claudius, who had claimed Virginia as his slave, were allowed to give bail, and all fled from Rome.

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

So popular were the decemvirs that another board of ten was appointed for the following year, some of whom, if the extant list of names is correct, were certainly plebeians.

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

The decemvirs had enjoyed that arbitrary authority; but practically they were restrained by the two provisions which alone were deemed efficacious in Rome, the short duration of office, and its distribution among several colleagues.

From The History of Freedom by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton