decemvirate
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When the second year of the decemvirate expired, Appius and his colleagues, knowing that they could not be elected again, showed no intention of yielding up their authority.
From Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
Of the decemvirate Servius Oppius and Appius Claudius remained at home: the other eight set out against the enemy.
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
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
For his fraud in pretending to the commons to be well disposed towards them, was happily contrived; as were also the means he took to bring about the reappointment of the decemvirate.
From Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius by Ninian Hill Thomson
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