decemviral

Before they marched out of the city, they engraved on brass, and fixed up in public view, the decemviral laws, which have received the name of "the twelve tables."

The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius

In the decemviral code the extreme penalty is attached to the crime of witchcraft or conjuration: 'Let him be capitally punished who shall have bewitched the fruits of the earth, or by either kind of conjuration (_excantando neque incantando_) shall have conjured away his neighbour's corn into his own field,' &c., an enactment sneered at in Justinian's _Institutes_ in Seneca's words.

The Superstitions of Witchcraft Howard Williams

There are many signs in tradition and early history of relations between Greece and Rome; as the decemviral legislation, the various consultations of the Delphic Oracle, the legends of Pythagoras and

The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

It is supposed that the most important part of the decemviral legislation was the _jus publicum_, [Footnote: Cicero, _De Legibus_.] or that which refers to the Roman constitution.

The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. John Lord 1852

After the decemviral laws fell into disuse, the Romans, in the days of the republic, passed from extreme rigor to great lenity, as is observable in the transition from the Puritan regime to our times in the

The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. John Lord 1852

Another great increase of power among the plebeians, about twenty years after the decemviral legislature, was the right, transferred from the curiæ to the centuries, of determining peace and war.

Ancient States and Empires John Lord 1852

All we know with certainty, is that it was the intention of the decemviral legislation to bring the estates into closer connection, and to equalize the laws for both.

The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. John Lord 1852

Nor do the provisions of the decemviral code, with which we are acquainted, show that enlightened regard to natural justice which characterized jurisprudence in its subsequent development.

The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. John Lord 1852

Just, in proposing the establishment of the decemviral power until the restoration of peace, did not conceal the motives nor the object of this dictatorship.

History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 Francois-Auguste Mignet 1840

At last, a deputation of the sectionaries went so far as to call the constitution of '93 a decemviral constitution, dictated by terror.

History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 Francois-Auguste Mignet 1840