Interrex Definition

Interrex Sentence Examples

• These were greater advantages than the exclusive patrician possession of the offices of interrex, rex sacrorum and the higher flamens.

• The Catuli and Metelli, among the proudest nobles of Rome, were plebeians, and as such could not have been chosen to the purely patrician office of interrex, or of Jupiter.

• Finally, the people elected to every magistracy with the exception of the occasional offices of Dictator and Interrex.

• The second class, referred to in inscriptions by the name of praefecti ab decurionibus creati lege Petronia, seem to have been appointed by the local senate in case of a complete absence of higher magistrates, such as would have led in Rome to the appointment of an interrex.