Roman Society From Nero to Marcus Aurelius

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i. 485 ; Henz. Ind. p. 157. i. 475 ; C. Th. xii. 5, 1.
Often described as iivir quinquennalis, ' C.I.L. viii. 2341 ; 17838.
CHAP. 11 MUNICIPAL LIFE 213 the greater Italian cities it probably would be much more ; at Pompeii the newly elected duumvir paid more than £80.-^ But the man chosen by the people often felt bound to outstrip the bare demands of law or custom by a prodigal liberality. He must build or repair some public work, to signalise his year of office, and, at the dedication of it, g
...ood taste required him to exhibit costly games, or to give a banquet to the citizens, with a largess to all of every rank small or great." But in return for its liabilities, the position of a duumvir gave undoubted power and distinction. The office was the image or shadow of the ancient consulship, and occasionally, as the inscriptions attest, a Hadrian or an Antoninus Pius did not disdain to accept it.^ The duumvirs commanded the local militia, when it was, on emergency, called out.* They presided at meetings of the people and the Curia, they pro- posed questions for their deliberation, and carried the decrees into effect.

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