decemvirate
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So, for example, the Romans might have spoken of a decemvirate after the time of Appius.
From The Olynthiacs and the Phillippics of Demosthenes Literally translated with notes by Charles Rann Kennedy
On the whole we may put the great period of the college between the decemvirate and the war with Hannibal.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
The decemvirate instituted at Rome; the Twelve Tables of law framed.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 (From the Rise of Greece to the Christian Era) by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
In this matter of the decemvirate we may likewise note the ease wherewith men become corrupted, and how completely, although born good and well brought up, they change their nature.
From Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius by Ninian Hill Thomson
At the end of the first year, the task of the board was quite far from being finished, so a new decemvirate was elected to complete the work.
From General History for Colleges and High Schools by Philip Van Ness Myers
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