Decemvirs is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DECEMVIRS in dictionary:

NOUN [PLURAL DE·CEM·VIRS, DE·CEM·VI·RI]:
• a member of a permanent board or a special commission of ten members in ancient Rome, especially the commission that drew up Rome's first code of law.
NOUN [PLURAL DE·CEM·VIRS, DE·CEM·VI·RI]:
• a member of any council or ruling body of ten.
NOUN:
• DECEMVIR, (Latin) one of a body of ten magistrates in ancient Rome
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• one of a body of ten Roman magistrates

Words related to DECEMVIRS

decemvir16 decemviri17

How to use DECEMVIRS in a sentence

• At the close of the year the first decemvirs laid down their office, just as the consuls and other officers of state had been accustomed to do before.
• The only one of the old decemvirs reelected was Appius Claudius.
• The first decemvirs had earned the respect and esteem of their fellow-citizens.
• By the end of the year the decemvirs had added two more tables to the code, so that there were now twelve tables.
• Of these tables, it should be observed that they were made laws not by the vote of the people, but by the simple edict of the decemvirs.
• Two armies were levied, one to check the Sabines, the other to oppose the AEquians, and these were commanded by the six military decemvirs.
• Then followed two events which were preserved in well-known legends, and which give the popular narrative of the manner in which the power of the decemvirs was at last overthrown.
• As soon as the bail was given, Appius also sent a message to the decemvirs in command of that army, ordering them to refuse leave of absence to Virginius.
• Whatever may be the truth of the legends of Siccius and Virginia, there can be no doubt that the conduct of the decemvirs had brought matters to the verge of civil war.
• The decemvirs had fallen, and the state was without any executive government.
• It has been supposed, as we have said above, that the government of the decemvirs was intended to be perpetual.
• This led, nearly about the time of the decemvirs, to an alteration of the constitution and to the appointment of this new board.
• The Decemvirs of Rome, whose name denotes their number,3 were more to be dreaded in their usurpation than any ONE of them would have been.
• Far from being subdued by the decided expression of popular will Roye and his supporters, with the spirit of the decemvirs of old, determined to maintain power at any hazard.
• Then the true history was found out, but the Decemvirs sheltered the commanders, and would believe nothing against them.
• Every soldier who heard the story resolved no longer to bear with the Decemvirs, but to march back to the city at once and insist on the old government being restored.
• When the troops arrived, they and the people joined in demanding that the Decemvirs should be given up to them to be burnt alive, and that the old magistrates should be restored.
• Cassius to the appointment of the Decemvirs was a period of more than thirty years.
• The Decemvirs prevented an immediate outbreak only by burying Dentatus with great pomp, but the troops were ready to rise in open mutiny upon the first provocation.
• Oppius, another of the Decemvirs, and the personal friend of Appius, was condemned and executed.
• The other Decemvirs were allowed to go into exile, but they were all declared guilty, and their property confiscated to the state.
• It was resolved that decemvirs should be elected without appeal, and that there should be no other magistrate during that year.
• The expectation of this, as the day of election approached, created a desire to appoint decemvirs again.
• But the decemvirs said that this was, because an appeal from the consuls to the people was allowed.
• The panic occasioned hereby urged the decemvirs to consult the senate, two wars at the same time surrounding the city.
• This was more pleasing to the decemvirs, than if they brought word that they were present and refused obedience to their commands.
• The legions being enrolled, the decemvirs set about arranging among themselves who should set out to the war, who command the armies.
• The leading men among the decemvirs were, Quintus Fabius and Appius Claudius.
• They refused to go on any other conditions, than that the decemvirs should lay down the badges of that office, which had expired the year before.
• That it was for themselves they were to conquer, and not that they should be the prize of the decemvirs, after conquering.
• The games which had been vowed by the decemvirs, in pursuance of a decree of the senate on occasion of the secession of the commons from the patricians, were performed this year.
• The colleague of Cicero, Antonius, was one of the first to favor it, in the hope of being one of the decemvirs.
• The train of virgins was followed by the decemvirs, crowned with laurel, and in purple-bordered robes.
• The consul, Caius Aurelius, took care that all these matters were performed according to the direction of the decemvirs.

Similar words containing CEMVIR without suffix s and without prefix de

decemvir16 decemviri17 decemviral18 decemvirate19 decemvirates20

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