office
Duumviri perduellionis
the duumviri
also: two officers (the duumviri)
The two-man archaic court for trying treason (perduellio).
Reading notes
- For Gaius Rabirius on a Charge of High Treason §12 two officers (the duumviri)
Duumviri perduellionis: the two-man board that judged treason, appointed (in the revived procedure) by the praetor rather than elected, and empowered to condemn without a stated case --- Cicero's point being that this denied a Roman citizen the protection of a popular trial.