vigintiviri

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

vīgintĭ-vĭri, ōrum, m., a college or board of twenty men, the vigintiviri.

I Appointed by Caesar during his consulship for distributing the Campanian lands, Cic. Att. 2, 6, 2; Suet. Aug. 4; cf. Vell. 2, 44, 4; Front. Colon. p. 137.— Sing. , Plin. 7, 52, 53, § 176.—

II An inferior civil court , one half of whose members assisted the praetor, and the other half presided over the roads, the mint, and public executions, Spart. Julian. 1; cf. Tac. A. 3, 29.— Sing. , Inscr. Orell. 2761; 3970.—

III A council of State , created A.D. 237, in opposition to Maximinus I., Capitol. Gord. 10; Inscr. Orell. 3042.

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