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  Centumviri - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
If the judices here mentioned are the centumviri, it is clear that they formed a tribunal which represented the interests of the plebs.
He says this was mainly concerned with the property of which account was taken at the census; it was therefore in 1 Mommsen (Staatsrecht, P. 275, n.
I, 590 f.) believed that the Centumviri were instituted about 150 B.C. their power to make or unmake a citizen.
www.1911ency.org /C/CE/CENTUMVIRI.htm   (251 words)

  
 The Beginnings of Rome
In its simplest form this constitution foreshadows the structure of the later municipal charters for Latin colonies under Roman influence.
Everywhere they had a senate of one hundred councilors (centumviri).
But even in the most ancient traditions about the city of Rome which speak of thirty committees, three hundred horsemen, three hundred senators and three thousand infantry, these figures are derived from the basic unit of the curia.
www.thestoryonline.com /Mommsen_Rome   (5243 words)

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