tetrarchy
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the position, territory, or tenure of a tetrarch, especially of the ruler of the fourth part of a province or country in the ancient Roman Empire.
Agrippa returned to Rome in a.d. 39 and secured the banishment of his uncle Antipas, whose tetrarchy of Galilee and Perea he was then granted.
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a group of four joint rulers or chiefs, or the rule or domain of such a group.
Many thanks to our tetrarchy of system administrators, who worked together to fix this complex network problem in record time.
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This shared rule between the four emperors was called a tetrarchy.
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A Roman depiction of the tetrarchy dating from the period of Diocletian’s reign.
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Diocletian’s hope was that the tetrarchy would end the cycle of assassinations.
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However this be, Philip seems to have contrived that the ruling body, whether in the tetrarchy or the decadarchy, should be his own creatures.
From The Olynthiacs and the Phillippics of Demosthenes Literally translated with notes by Charles Rann Kennedy
It is, however, quite possible that Demosthenes was thinking especially of the Thessalians of Pherae, and of the particular tetrarchy established over them: and this seems on the whole the best solution.
From The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 by Arthur Wallace Pickard
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