Duumviri (IIVIR)
One
of two Roman officers or magistrates united in the same public
functions (one of two duumviri of a duumvirate). The title duumvir,
written as II VIR, appears on provincial and colonial coinage when
duumvir was the title of the highest officials of the city. In imperial
times, the second duumvir of the city was often the emperor.
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DUUMVIRI,
so called from their number (two), were magistrates inferior in rank to
the praetors, and who presided as judges at a court
(curia) in Rome, where cognizance was taken only of
criminal cases. The office was held in much consideration
during the Republic, as well for the power it conferred, as on account
of its antiquity, the creation of the duumviri being referred to a
period so far back as the reign of Tullus Hostillius.
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