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first vested the commissioners with consular imperium. It also included a number of other special powers. Like the Decemvirate and the dictatorship of Sulla, the triumvirs had power to issue legally-binding edicts. They were also granted powers to change the rolls of the senate (ius senatus legendi) and establish new Roman colonies. These powers amounted "to the enhanced domestication of the [powers] traditionally used for the foundation and settlement of colonies and colonists".

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