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
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
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
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
