men did not alternate fasces - rotate through full authority with the other members taking veto powers - rather, given the Livian and Dionysian narratives on the Decemvirate, refrained from interference with each other. Doing so de facto suspended their mutual ius intercessionis.

Term

There were two kinds of magistracies in the Roman republic: those with a fixed term and those created for certain causa which would elapse only with the abdication, death, or abrogation of the magistrate. While the law established the magistracy

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