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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.

Life of Cicero Volume One Anthony Trollope 1848

The "decemviri" were to have plenary power for ten years.

Life of Cicero Volume One Anthony Trollope 1848

"decemviri," or ten magistrates, would be anxious to assist.

Life of Cicero Volume One Anthony Trollope 1848

Plebeians were admitted to the college of decemviri sacris faciundis in 364 (367), of priests and augurs in 300.

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The first decemviri published ten tables of laws that proved insufficient, so new decemviri created in 446 (450) added two more tables.

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But members of the three colleges were always drawn from the best senatorial families, be they patrician or plebeian, and individual augurs, decemviri, and priests pursued full political and military careers like other Roman aristocrats.

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These actions seem to derive all their glory from the revolutions to which they gave rise, as the former occasioned the abolition of monarchy amongst the Romans, and the latter put an end to the arbitrary power of the decemviri.

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The quaestors, accordingly, did not belong to them, but they comprised the masters of the mint, the superintendents of the paving of the roads, and especially the superintendents of all matters connected with prisons, and the _decemviri litibus judicandis_.

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

This college was called at different times, according to the number of its members, _duoviri_, _decemviri_, or _quindecemviri sacrorum_.

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

We may justly address you, as the _decemviri_ did the Romans, and say,

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