Decemvirs
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Decemvirate · Ten Men · decemviral power · decemvirs · second decemvirs · third decemviral year
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1 expressionThe Decemvirs1 mention
On the Commonwealth (Latin)
But some years before, when the highest authority was in the senate, the people suffering it and obedient, a plan was entered upon, that both the consuls and the tribunes of the plebs should abdicate their magistracy, and that decemvirs of the greatest power, without appeal, should be created, who should both have the highest command and write the laws.
in the texts
On the Commonwealth
Ten-man Roman magistracy given supreme unappealable power to codify the laws, later turned tyrannical.
But some years before, when the highest authority was in the senate, the people suffering it and obedient, a plan was entered upon, that both the consuls and the tribunes of the plebs should abdicate their magistracy, and that decemvirs of the greatest power, without appeal, should be created, who should both have the highest command and write the laws.
When the decemvirs were at Rome without appeal, in that third year, when liberty itself had lost its sureties?
A third decemviral year followed, when the same men were in office and had not wished to substitute others.
Institutes of Roman Law
Boards of ten men appointed to draft the Twelve Tables in 451 and 450 BC.
’ It is an utterance which shows how little the Decemvirs regarded their own work as final, how little they were affected by the Greek idea of the unalterability of a Code, of a Code forming a perpetual background of a Constitution—in fact, by the idea of a fixed or written Constitution at all.
) maintained by the tribunes of the Plebs, then of a commission sent to gain knowledge of Hellenic codes, next of the appointment of two successive boards of Decemvirs for the years 451, 450 b.
On the one hand, we hear that this same Cnaeus Flavius published a Calendar which gave a record of Court Days (Dies Fasti);