duumvir
Americannoun
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duumvirs,
plural
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duumviri
plural
noun
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Roman history one of two coequal magistrates or officers
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either of two men who exercise a joint authority
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Etymology
Origin of duumvir
1590–1600; < Latin, back formation from duumvirōrum, genitive plural of duovirī two men, equivalent to duo- duo- + virī, plural of vir man, cognate with Old English wer ( see werewolf)
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Caius Servilius, duumvir, also dedicated a temple of Jupiter, in the island.
From The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Titus Livius
In this same colony my father attained to the post of duumvir and became the foremost citizen of the place, after filling all the municipal offices of honour.
From The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura by Harold Edgeworth Butler
A duumvir of the place had a daughter whom he had turned out of his house for receiving baptism, and who had taken refuge at Vacca.
From Callista : a Tale of the Third Century by John Henry Newman
This year the temple of Mars, vowed in the Gallic war, was dedicated by Titus Quinctius, duumvir for performing religious rites.
From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Titus Livius
This is generally interpreted as meaning that Apuleius himself had become duumvir.
From The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura by Harold Edgeworth Butler
They were first appointed in 367 B.C. instead of the patrician duumviri who had hitherto performed these duties.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
At the summit of the town is a beautiful little Doric tetrastyle temple, belonging probably to the 1st century B.C., built of limestone with an inscription recording its erection by the duumviri.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various
They were governed upon the model of the Republic: had two consuls called duumviri; a senate called decuriones or collegium decurionum, and other magistrates similar to those of the Republic.
From Life of Adam Smith by John Rae
Several inscriptions use this name, as also the bronze coins which bear the heads of Augustus and Tiberius, and were struck at first in the name of the suffetes, afterwards in that of duumviri.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various
But there was a right of appeal to the Curia from judicial decisions of the duumvirs in certain cases.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill
Marcus Staius Rufus, son of M. Rufus, duumvirs of justice for the second time, caused the labrum to be made at the public expense, by order of the Decurions.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
There are some who state that he was condemned by duumvirs appointed to inquire concerning cases of treason.
From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Titus Livius
And then the duumvirs had their struggle with the infinitely little, and they fussed over this and that.
From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas
A truce was sealed that day between Nono and the twins, though the duumvirs said never a word on the subject.
From The Golden House by Sarah S. (Sarah Schoonmaker) Baker
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