Then, marching into the city, they compelled the Decemvirito resign.
The enraged populace compelled the Decemviri to resign, and Appius, to escape worse punishment, put an end to his own life.
The court of Ten-men (-decemviri litibus iudicandis-) was a very ancient institution for the protection of the plebeians against their masters.
Marcus Aurelius Cotta, one of the decemviri of the sacred books, died, and Manius Acilius Glabrio was substituted in his room.
Lest the Decemviri should proceed too rapidly with the work they had been specially chosen to do, arrangements were made for distracting their attention from it by throwing on them the whole business of Government.
Though the Decemviri had done enough to win the public favour, they had left enough undone to afford a pretext for the prolongation of their powers.
Besides decreeing, no doubt with the sanction of the pontifices, certain ordinary measures, the Senate referred the matter to the decemviri and the Sibylline books.
It was clever too to give the alleged Latin oracles the sanction of the Graecus ritus; "decemviri Graeco ritu hostiis sacra faciant," says the oracle.
Hebe in a Latin form; in his view it must be a Greek deity, being brought in by the decemviri and the books.
This is the only way in which we can satisfactorily account for the direction to the decemviri to undertake the necessary sacrifices.
Let the decemviriperform sacrifice with victims after the Grecian fashion.
This impiety being converted into a prodigy, as is usually the case when happening in the midst of so many calamities, the decemviri were desired to consult the sacred books.
The next day a decree of the senate was passed, that the decemvirishould inspect the books relating to the celebration of games and sacred rites in honour of Apollo.
When these things were done, thedecemviri sacrificed with the larger victims in the forum at Ardea.
The Decemviri were also an inferior set of men appointed to take care of the Sybil's books, to conduct colonies, &c.
From the creation of the Decemvirito the destruction of the city by the Gauls, viz.
What was the conduct of the decemviri on this occasion?
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