History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . duumvirs (L. Renier, Inter, de T p. 7),— a new proof of the want of uniformity which is found in so many cases. Theinscriptions of Narbonensis contain the following magisterial titles, — duumviri, qualuorviri,praetores Ilviri,praetores Illlviri, Ilriri aerarii, Hllviri ub aeran , quaestores, prae- fecti vigilum et armorum, triumviri locorum publicorum persequendorum (Herzog, op. cit. pp.• 214). An inscription of Vienna (Isere) proves that the municipal magistrates had scribae,praecones, lictores,
History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . duumvirs (L. Renier, Inter, de T p. 7),— a new proof of the want of uniformity which is found in so many cases. Theinscriptions of Narbonensis contain the following magisterial titles, — duumviri, qualuorviri,praetores Ilviri,praetores Illlviri, Ilriri aerarii, Hllviri ub aeran , quaestores, prae- fecti vigilum et armorum, triumviri locorum publicorum persequendorum (Herzog, op. cit. pp.• 214). An inscription of Vienna (Isere) proves that the municipal magistrates had scribae,praecones, lictores, viatores, and stalores (L. Renier, Mem. de VAcad. des inscr. vol. xxvii. parts1,8). The superior magistracies were called honores, and the expression magistrate was keptfor the duumvirs. 62 THE EMPIRE AND ROMAN SOCIETY. were elected for a year, and were eligible for re-election after aninterval which, at Malaga, was five years. The duumvirs convokedthe assembly of the people and the curia, over which they executive officers of the municipal senate, they administered. TEMPLE CALLED THE MAISON CAHR^E, AT MIMES. under its control the city and its territory, which was almostalways of considerable extent, for the adjacent hamlets, the vici andcastella, were, for the census, imposts, and jurisdiction, dependenton the city. Thus on Nimes were dependent twenty-four oppida,or large villages,1 on Genoa five castella ; the whole of Helvetia, 1 Pliny, Hist. not. iii. v. The vici, or ku>hiu. had special administrators, magistri prat fecti(if. the Index of Henzen, p. ). They could be raised to the condition of a deltas (Wad-dington, Voyage de Lebas, iii. 257), and a city was sometimes reduced to the state of Septimius Severus made Byzantium, which had sided with Niger, a town of the territoryof Perinthus (Dion, lxxiv. 14). The lex Ritbria and the lex Julia municipalis mention inItaly three sorts of cities or communities having their own administration
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