Definition of "centumvir" []

• One of a court of about 100 judges chosen to try civil suits. Under the Empire the court was increased to 180, and met usually in four sections. (noun)

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• "He also spent some time in Sicily, and returned to Rome probably at the age of 23 or 24, where he allowed himself to be nominated _triumvir capitalis, decemvir litibus iudicandis_, and _centumvir_, in quick succession."
• "He could not conceive how it happened that, in a former Congress, they had been so blind to the magic of numbers as to overlook the number 100, notwithstanding which one of that body signed himself centumvir, as one of the number of whom that council was composed."