decemvir

Geta was appointed as a Decemvir which in part involved judging of litigation (stlitibus iudicandis).

However, the chronology of this family makes this extremely improbable, leading to the conclusion that he was in fact Gnaeus, the father of the decemvir.

Appius Claudius Crassus, former decemvir (suicide)

Spurius Veturius P. f. (Crassus) Cicurinus, father of the decemvir.

Chapter 5: the story of decemvir Appius Claudius Crassus and the rape of Verginia.

He was Decemvir Stlitibus Iudicandis and military tribune before 150 BC, and became quaestor around that date.

The decemvir Appius Claudius Crassus lusted after her and tried to use his power to take her as his own, possibly as a slave.

The patricians vehemently opposed it but were nevertheless forced to found a commission headed by a decemvir who in turn announced the Twelve Tables in the Roman Forum.

Titus Antonius Merenda, Decemvir in 450 BC, defeated by the Aequi on Mount Algidus.

Appius Claudius Crassus (PW 123) was a decemvir of the Roman Republic ca 451 BC.

According to tradition it was the Etruscan king Tarquin to use it first to punish the decemvir M. Atinio who was found guilty of divulging sacred rites.

Spurius Postumius A. f. P. n. Albus Regillensis, consul in 466 and decemvir in 451 BC.

Most modern writers refer to him as Aulus, assuming him to be the same as the decemvir of 451, who is called Aulus in the Capitoline Fasti.

Decemviri (singular decemvir) is a Latin term meaning "Ten Men" which designates any such commission in the Roman Republic (cf. Triumviri, Three Men).

In 201 BC he held decemvirate (decemvir agris dandis adsignandis) for distributing ager publicus in Samnium and Apulia.

Publius Sestius, accused of murder by Gaius Julius Iulus, one of the decemvirs, in 451 BC; apparently a different man from the decemvir Capitolinus.

The success of the Decemvirate prompted the appointment of a second college of decemviri for 450 BC (Appius Claudius being the only decemvir returned after having controversially reappointed himself).

Around 451 B.C., a decemvir of the Roman Republic, Appius Claudius Crassus begins to lust after Verginia, a plebeian girl betrothed to a former tribune, Lucius Icilius.

Each decemvir administered the government for one day in turn, and whichever decemvir presided on any given day was preceded by the twelve lictors bearing the fasces; none of the other decemviri received any protection from the lictors.