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Example sentences for "decemvirate"

Lexicographically close words:
deceleration; decem; decembre; decemvir; decemviral; decemviri; decemvirs; decencies; decency; decennial
  1. Fall of the Decemvirs The end of the decemvirate is involved in much obscurity.

  2. The Tribunate of the Plebs and the Decemvirate III.

  3. During the first Decemvirate the members had taken the Government alternately for twenty-four hours at a time, on the principle of every lucky dog having his day: but now the whole ten assumed, at once, the insignia of royalty.

  4. They attained the first object four years after the Decemvirate by the Lex Canuleia, proposed by Canuleius, one of the Tribunes (B.

  5. At the end of the first year, the task of the board was quite far from being finished, so a new decemvirate was elected to complete the work.

  6. Footnote 10: See Institution and Fall of the Decemvirate in Rome, page 1.

  7. The decemvirate instituted at Rome; the Twelve Tables of law framed.

  8. HORNE Institution and Fall of the Decemvirate in Rome (B.

  9. So, for example, the Romans might have spoken of a decemvirate after the time of Appius.

  10. Of the decemvirate Servius Oppius and Appius Claudius remained at home: the other eight set out against the enemy.

  11. 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.

  12. Of the creation of the Decemvirate in Rome, and what therein is to be noted.

  13. Why the creation of the Decemvirate in Rome, although brought about by the free and open suffrage of the Citizens, was hurtful to the liberties of that Republic XXXVI.

  14. 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.

  15. Another thing which greatly hurts a government is to keep alive bitter feelings in men's minds by often renewed attacks on individuals, as was done in Rome after the decemvirate was put an end to.


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