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The duumviri, the decurions, the augustales, the ædiles, Holconius, Cornelius Rufus, and Pansa, if he was elected, sat there majestically apart from common mortals.

From The Wonders of Pompeii by Monnier, Marc

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 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

Accordingly, Cneius Pupius and Caeso Quinctius Flaminius, created duumviri by Marcus Aemilius, the city praetor, for that purpose, contract for the building a temple in the citadel.

From The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26 by Livius, Titus

The chief magistrates in a colonia were styled duumviri iure dicundo. the dignity of my position.

From The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura by Butler, Harold Edgeworth