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VIGINTISEXVIRI , in See also:

ROMAN

Roman See also:

HISTORY

history, the collective name given in republican times to " twenty-six " magistrates of inferior See also:

RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank. They were divided into six boards, two of which were abolished by See also:

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

Augustus. Their number was thereby reduced to twenty and their name altered to VIGINTIVIRI (" the twenty "). They were originally nominated by the higher magistrates, but subsequently elected in a See also:

BODY

body at a single sitting of the See also:

COMITIA

comitia tributa; under the See also:

EMPIRE

empire they were chosen by the See also:

SENATE (Lat. senatus, from root sen-, as in senex, old; the root is the Sanskrit sana, cf. Gr. 'vos; the same element appears in senor, seigneur, seneschal)

senate. The following are the names of the six boards: (I) Tresviri capitales (see TRESVIRI); (2) Tresviri monetales; (3) Quatuorviri viis in urbe purgandis, who had the care of the streets and roads inside the See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city; (4) See also:

DUOVIRI

Duoviri viis extra urbem purgandis (see DuoviRs), abolished by Augustus; (5) See also:

DECEMVIRI (" the ten men ")

Decemviri stlitibus judicandis (see DECEMvIRI); (6) Quatuor praefecti Capuam Cumas, abolished by Augustus. The members of the last-named See also:

BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board were appointed by the See also:

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

praetor urbanus of See also:

Rome to administer See also:

JUSTICE (Lat. justitia)

justice in ten Campanian towns (See also:

list in See also:

MOMMSEN, THEODOR (1817–1903)

Mommsen), and received their name from the two most important of these. They were subsequently elected by the See also:

PEOPLE

people under the See also:

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of quatuorviri :lure dicundo, but the date is not known. See Mommsen, Romisches Staatsrecht, ii. (1887), p. J92.

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