Vigintisexviri

The Vigintisexviri (literally " 26 Men"; singular Vigintisexvir ), in the imperial period Vigintiviri, a collegium were simple judges and officials ( magistratus minores ), which before them in the senatorial career in office, the cursus honorum, occurred in ancient Rome, certain public tasks (among coinage, road construction, sanitation, prison ) had to be done. At 18, you could become a member. Like most Roman offices it was dressed for a year.

The Vigintisexvirat took shape in the middle Republic. In the 1st century BC, it consisted of the following offices:

• The three Triumviri capitales
• The Triumviri monetales
• The Quatuorviri viarum curandarum ( four men on the streets in the city)
• The duoviri Viis Extra urbem purgandis (two men on the roads outside the city)
• The ten Decemviri (st) litibus iudicandis, and
• The four prefects for the administration of justice in Campania.

In the Republic of the Vigintisexvirat served as a springboard for their careers in the public service for the sons of senators. Gaius Julius Caesar had worked as a curator viarum and can be recovered as such parts of the Via Appia.

During Augustus ' Principate, the Senate decided before the year 13 BC a senatus consultum that ended the participation of the two curators of the roads outside of Rome and the four Campanian prefects and so the collegium to 20 men reduced ( vigintiviri ). In addition, the occupation of the offices remained now the equestrian order ( ordo equester ) reserved. The offices of Vigintivirats were typically dressed as the first step of the career ladder of young knights or Senator sons, who sought a senatorial career in office. The functions were regarded as mint master or decemvir than that of road overseer or tresviri capitales.