Interrex

Word INTERREX
Character 8
Hyphenation in ter rex
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This temporary supreme magistrate called the interrex held office for five days only as custodian of Rome; he had to be patrician, the leader of his decury of senators, and in the case of the first interrex, the senior patrician in the House. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)

At that time the "interrex" convened the assembly and addressed it as follows: "Quirites! elect your king, and may heaven's blessing rest on your labours! ❋ Unknown (1905)

In this manner he descended into the forum, where Spurius Vettius, whose turn it was to be interrex at that hour, put it to the vote; and all declared him king. ❋ Plutarch (2003)

“He has done exactly what he ought to do, appoint an interrex.” ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)

But those are all things which must come from the decisions of our interrex, so I shall not dwell upon them any further. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)

So at dawn on New Year's Day the Senate formally appointed Lucius Valerius Flaccus Princeps Senatus the first interrex and those men who intended to stand for election as consuls and praetors went into a flurry of hasty canvassing. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)

The senatus consultum de re publica defendenda was passed, Flaccus Princeps Senatus died, the second interrex held elections, and finally Lepidus marched on Rome. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)

The only executive, as a matter of fact-the interrex must apply to them to execute his only function-which is to organize and hold curule elections. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)

I will be succeeded by a second interrex who will also serve for five days. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)

Rome must have an interrex, and the law is specific. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)

It may not lie in his power to do so, in which case a third interrex will have to try. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)

The interrex sent a curt message to Lepidus ordering him to leave his army and return to Rome forthwith, and reminding him that he had sworn an oath not to turn his legions upon his colleague. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)

On the sixth day he was succeeded as interrex by the second most senior patrician in the House also leader of his decury; the second interrex was empowered to hold the elections. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)

Lucius Valerius Flaccus the Princeps Senatus, colleague in the second-last consulship of Gaius Marius, dropped dead the day after he stepped down from office as first interrex, and Philippus proposed that Mamercus be appointed as a temporary Princeps Senatus. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)

On the sixth day of January, Flaccus Princeps Senatus stood down and the Senate appointed its second interrex, who was Appius Claudius Pulcher, still lingering in Rome recovering from his long illness. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)

But this required impassioned debate, and so the Senate did not pass its Ultimate Decree until the last day of Flaccus's term as first interrex. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)

On the last day of the old year Catulus had convened the Senate and informed it that on the morrow it would have to send the fasces to the temple of Venus Libitina and appoint the first interrex. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)

It was not a particularly popular appointment, but there were so many restrictions and precedents and regulations that only Lucius Valerius Flaccus had qualified — he was a patrician, the leader of his group of senators, a consular, a censor, and an interrex more times than any other patrician senator. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1991)

But Cicero jestingly says that he advises clients to apply to each _interrex_ (who only held office for five days) for two adjournments, whereby he would get his case postponed indefinitely: for if each adjournment was to the third day, the two would cover each ❋ Marcus Tullius Cicero (N/A)

I can see that our friend Messalla will be consul, if by means of an _interrex_, without any prosecution, if by that of a dictator, without danger of conviction. ❋ Marcus Tullius Cicero (N/A)

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