decemvir

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Icilius faces the Chief Decemvir with blazing eyes, and draws Virginia closer.

From Virginia, A Tragedy And Other Poems by Gilmore, Marion Forster

The unhappy father then prayed the Decemvir to be allowed to speak one word to the nurse in his daughter's hearing, in order to ascertain whether she was really his daughter.

From A Smaller History of Rome by Smith, William, Sir

The story ran that the Decemvir, unable to succeed by bribes and solicitations, resorted to an outrageous act of tyranny.

From Lays of Ancient Rome by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

The Roman Lucillus lounged at the window-sill, and, since philosophy had been brought into fashion by Socrates and the Sophists, the shoemaker and the exiled Decemvir philosophised as well as they could.

From Historical Miniatures by Strindberg, August

Decemvir, de-sem′vir, n. one of ten magistrates who at one time had absolute power in ancient Rome:—pl.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various