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contain3 about A1 nd part of the weight alloy. DUPLA'RII or DUPLICA'RII, were solHlence its value is 93 grains of pure silver, or, as diers who received on account of their good
93 of a shilling that is Is. Id. 3-2 conduct double allowance (duplicia cibScain), and
efore, 80.7 of a shiling; that is, is. Id. 32 perhaps in some cases double pay likewise. (Varro,
farthings. The largest coin of the Aeginetan stan- De Ling. Lat. v. 90, Miiller; Liv. ii. 59, xxiv. 47;
dard appears to have been the didrachmna, and the Orelli, lnscrip. No. 3535.) They are frequently
values of the different coins of this standard will mentioned in inscriptions (Orelli, Nos. 3533,
be found in the Tables. 4994), but more commonly under the name of
The proportion of the Ae inetan drachma to the duplarii. (Orelli, Nos. 3531, 3535, 3476, 3481,
Attic, according to the value given above, is as 93 &c.) In one iscription the form duplicarius octo 65'4, or as 4-18 to 3 nearly. According to curs. (Orelli, No. 3534.) Vegetius (ii. 7) calls
Pollux, however, the proportion was 5 to 3; for he them dcuplares milites.
states (ix. 76, 86) that the Aeginetan drachma DUPLICA/TIO. [ACTIo.]
was equal to 10 Attic obols, and that the Aegine- DUPONDIUS. [As, p. 141, a; PEs.J
tan talent contained 10,000 Attic drachmae. For DUSSIS. [As. p. 141, a.]
a full discussion of this question, which is one of DUU'MVIRI, or the two men, the name of
the most interesting in ancient numismatics, and various magistrates and functionaries at Rome, and
of the respective values of the other standards coloniaeand municipia. I inscriptions e
which were used by the Greeks, see NUMmuS also meet with the form duomvsires (Orelli, lnscrip.
and TALENTUV. NO. 3808), and duovir (Orelli, No. 3886).
1. DuusVIRI JuRi DICUNDO, the highest
magistrates in the municipal towns. [COLONIA,
p. 3.18,)
IiW i t / ~uR\2. )UUsvsIRI NAVALES, extraordinary magistrates, who were created, whenever occasion ret ij]I~i ~ II < } 7quired, for the purpose of equipping and repairing
the fleet. They appear to have been originally
appointed by the consuls and dictators, but were
first elected by the people, B. c. 311. (Liv. ix. 30,
xl. 18, 26, xli. 1.)
AEGINETAN DRACHMA. BRITISH MUSEUM. 3. Du1JeVsi i PERDUEa LIONIS. [PERDUELACTUAL SIZE. LIO.]
4. DurWUMVIRI QIINQUENNALES, the censors
As the Romans reckoned in sesterces, so the in the municipal towns, who must not be conGreeks generally reckoned by drachmae; and founded with the duumviri juri dicundo. [Co.
when a sum is mentioned in the Attic writers, LONIA, p. 318.]
without any specification of the unit, drachmae are 5. DuuMVIeI SACRI, extraordinary magistrates,
usually meant. (BJckh, Pol. Econ. of'Athens, i. like the du]2nvili Navales, appointed for the purp. 25.) pose of building or dedicating a temple. (Liv. vii.
DRACO. [SIGNA MILITARIA.] 28, xxii. 33, xxxv. 41.)
DUCENA'RII, the name of various officers 6. DLUVIRI SACRORUa, originally had the
and magistrates, in the imperial period, of whom charge of the Sibylline books. Their duties were
the principal were as follow: afterwards discharged by the decenmviri sacris
1. The imperial procuratores, who received a.fsciundis. [ID,ECEMVIRI, No. 3.]
salary of 200 sestertia. Dion Cassius (liii. 15) 7. DuuWIsvIiI VIIS EXTRA URBEM PURGANsays that the procuratores first received s salary DIS, were officers under the aediles, who had the
in the time of Augustus, and that they derived charge of the streets of the suburbs of Rome, outtheir title from the amount of their salary. We side the city gates. (Tabul. Heracl. i. 50, ed.
thus read of centenarii, &c., as well as of duce- Gdttling.) Their office appears to have been
narii. (See Capitolin. Pertinz. 2; Orelli, Inscrip. abolished by Augustus, and their duties devolved
No. 946.) Claudius granted to the procuratores upon the Quattssorviri. (Comp. Dion Cass. liv. 26;
ducenarii the consular ornaments. (Suet. Claud. Pompon. De Orig. Jutr. ~ 30; Becker, Ri'nisclh,
24.) Altecrt. vol. ii. part ii. p. 366.)
2. A class or decuria of jLdices, first established DUX. [PROVINCIA.]
by Augustus. They were so called because their
property, as valued in the censu.s, only amounted
to 200 sestertia, and they tried causes of small E.
importance. (Suet. Aug. 32.)
3. Officers who commanded two centuries, and ECCLE'SIA (i.Xqs7eia), the general asseublly
who held the sanme rank as the primi hastati in of the citizens at Athens, in which they met to
the ancient legion. (Veget. ii. 8; Orelli, Inscrip. discuss and determine upon matters of public inNo.: 3444.) terest. These assemblies were either ordinary,
4. The imperial household troops, who were and held four times in each prytany, or extraunder the authority of the macgister officioruzm. ordicarey, that is, specially convened, upon any sudThey are frequently mentioned among the agentes den emergency, and therefore called ou'yucAWor.
ix raebus, or ushers. (Cod. 1. tit. 31-; 12. tit. 20.) On occasions of extreme importance, when it was
DUCENTE'SIMA. [CENTESIMA.] desirable for as many persons as possible to be pre.DUELLA.. [UNCIA.] sent at the discussion of any question, the people
DULCIA'RII. [PISTOR.] were summoned by express from the country to
DUODECIM SCRIPTA. [LATRUNCULI.] the city, and then the assembly was called a
DUODECIM TABULLARUM LEX. [Lrx.] c arauCmoh7La, -the proper meaning of KaqraicaNeU'
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