Lucius Sepunius Sandilianus the son of Lucius, and Marcus Herennius Epidianus the son of Aulus, duumvirs with judiciary authority, caused the seat and the sundial to be made at their own expense.
As the receipt was given for the city, the witnesses were the two duumvirs and the slave Privatus, who received the money.
As the duumvirs not only sat as judges but also had in their hands the financial administration of the city, we can see why the hall set aside for their use was the first to be rebuilt after the earthquake.
The administration was placed in the hands of two pairs of officials, the duumvirs with judiciary authority, duumviri iuri dicundo, and two aediles, who were responsible for the care of buildings and streets and the oversight of the markets.
When the duumvirs and the aediles joined in official acts they were known as the Board of Four, quattuorviri.
The names of the four officials who erected the altar, the two duumvirs and two aediles (for the title see p.
We learn from an inscription on the labrum, in bronze letters, that it was made under the direction of Gnaeus Melissaeus Aper and Marcus Staius Rufus, who were duumvirs in 3-4 A.
It was plain that the Duumvirs of Sicca had no legal custody of Callista; in a criminal matter she might seem to fall under the jurisdiction of the military; and Calphurnius gained leave to claim his right at the proper moment.
But you’d oblige the Duumvirs as much as me in getting her out of the scrape.
An inscription gives us the names of the duumvirs who had gauged them by order of the decurions.
The duumvirs commanded the local militia, when it was, on emergency, called out.
But there was a right of appeal to the Curia from judicial decisions of the duumvirs in certain cases.
In the lex Ursonensis we find a long list of matters on which the duumvirs were obliged to take their instructions from the Curia.
These officers, who were always unconnected with the municipality, took over the financial control, which had previously belonged to the duumvirs and quaestors.
The duumvirs indeed possessed extensive prerogatives which strong men may have sometimes strained.
The senate ordered duumvirs to be appointed to have the temple built suitably to the grandeur of the Roman people; the site destined for it was in the citadel, where the ground was on which the house of Marcus Manlius Capitolinus had stood.
There are some who state that he was condemned by duumvirs appointed to inquire concerning cases of treason.
Rufus, duumvirs of justice for the second time, caused the labrum to be made at the public expense, by order of the Decurions.
The seats are elevated above the arena upon a high podium or parapet, upon which, when the building was first opened, there remained several inscriptions, containing the names of duumvirs who had presided upon different occasions.
A vote was passed that the games should be performed, and that duumvirs should be appointed to contract for the building of the temple.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "duumvirs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
