'twenty-six men') were a college (collegium) of minor magistrates (magistratus minores) in the Roman Republic.
The college consisted of six boards:[1] Being a member of the vigintisexviri was a prerequisite to the quaestorship after the reforms of Sulla.
[5] The label used for these magistrates may only have been introduced after Sullan times, but the first of the constituent boards may date back to the third century BC.
[1] The duoviri viis extra urbem purgandis and the four praefecti Capuam Cumas were abolished by Augustus c. 13 BC, reducing the vigintisexviri to the vigintiviri.
[6] The remaining boards were not abolished entirely until at least the third century.