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laws of 449 B.C. (Livy iii. 55, Consules . . . fecerunt sanciendo ut qui tribunis plebis, aedilibus, judicibus, decemviris nocuisset, ejus ca put See also:

Joel sacrum esset). If the judices here mentioned are the centumviri, it is clear that they formed a tribunal which represented the interests of the See also:

PLEBS (from the root seen in Lat. plenus, full; cf. Gr. 7rXit9os)

plebs. This is in accordance with See also:

CICERO

Cicero's account (de Orat. i. 38. 173) of the See also:

SPHERE (Gr. vclsa?pa, a ball or globe)

sphere of their jurisdiction. He says this was mainly concerned with the property of which account was taken at the See also:

CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

census; it was therefore in ' See also:

MOMMSEN, THEODOR (1817–1903)

Mommsen (Staatsrecht, P. 275, n. 4, 231, n.

1, 590 f.) believed that the Centumviri were instituted about 15o B. c. their See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power to make or unmake a See also:

CITIZEN (a form corrupted in Eng., apparently by analogy with " denizen," from O. Fr. citeain, mod. Fr. citoyen)

citizen. They also decided questions concerning See also:

DEBT (Lat. debitum, a thing owed)

debt. Hence the plebs had an See also:

INTEREST

interest in securing their decisions against undue See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence. They were never regarded as magistrates, but merely as judices, and as such would be appointed for a fixed See also:

TERM

term of service by the See also:

MAGISTRATE (Lat. magistratus, from magister, master, properly a public office, hence the person holding such an office)

magistrate, probably by the See also:

PRAETOR (Lat. prae-itor, " he who goes before," "a leader")

praetor urbanus. But in Cicero's See also:

time they were elected by the See also:

COMITIA

Comitia Tributa. They then numbered 105. Their See also:

ORIGINAL

original number is uncertain. It was probably increased by See also:

AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)

Augustus and in See also:

Pliny's time had reached 180. The See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office was probably open in quite See also:

early times to both See also:

PATRICIANS (Lat. patricius, an adjectival form from pater, father; not, as some say, from pater and ciere, to call)

patricians and plebeians. The term is also applied in the See also:

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

inscriptions of See also:

VEIL (O.Fr. veile, mod. voile, from Lat. velum, cloth, awning, sail)

Veil to the municipal senates and See also:

CURES

Cures, which numbered too members.

End of Article: CENTUMVIRI (centum, hundred; vir, man)

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