interrexes

Updated: July 19, 2026

So soon as Flaminius with his colleague had resigned the consulate, Marcellus was declared consul by the presiding officers called Interrexes; and, entering into the magistracy, chose Cnaeus Cornelius his colleague. From thence Britomartus, king of the Gaesatae, taking with him ten thousand soldiers, harassed the country round about.

Plutarch - Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans