MUNERA PUBLICA

munera publica (myoo-n[schwa]r-[schwa] p[schwa]b-li-k[schwa]). [Latin] Roman law. Public duties, such as performing the offices of tutor and curator, and of index privatus. Sing. munus publicum. “Among the Romans there were certain offices regarded as public duties, which no citizen (unless he could plead certain specified excuses) could refuse to accept of and fulfil; and among […]