office
quattuorviri
also: IIII viri, quattuorvir, board of four
The board of four chief magistrates (quattuorviri) at the head of many Italian municipia and colonies, exercising local jurisdiction and administration. In Fam. 13.76 Cicero addresses the quattuorviri together with the decurions of the town.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 10.13 §1 He summoned by letter, from the municipalities, the ten leading citizens and the boards of four
The decem primi were the ten senior members of a town council, and the quattuorviri were the four chief magistrates of an Italian municipality. Antony, as Caesar's deputy in Italy, summons these local notables to do business and then keeps them waiting, a display of his casual arrogance.
- Ad Familiares 13.76 §1 M. CICERO IIII VIRIS ET DECVRIONIBVS S. D.
The letter is addressed not to an individual but to a town council: the IIII viri (quattuorviri), the board of four chief magistrates of a municipium, and the decuriones, the members of its local senate (ordo decurionum). The town is unnamed in the text but lay in the territory of Fregellae.