decemvirate
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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 Thomson, Ninian Hill
The five that had already fallen when John received the vision were the regal power, the consular, the decemvirate, the military tribunes, and the triumvirate.
From The Last Reformation by Smith, F. G. (Frederick George)
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 Thomson, Ninian Hill
But they soon threw off the mask of moderation, and, regardless of the approbation of the senate or the people, resolved to continue, against all order, in the decemvirate.
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 Fowler, W. Warde