He set sail towards the end of May and steered a straight course for England, intending to pay a visit to Henry VIII.
In your high church, 'mid the still mountain air, Where horn, and hound, and vassals never come.
Discontent was rife on all sides, and many wild rumours were afloat.
Give me justice against my uncle Icenus, the Duumvir of Divio in Gaul," he said.
Tell Pertinax I have met his late Uncle, the Duumvir of Divio, and that he accounted to me quite truthfully for all his Mother's monies.
This bench of the priestess Mamia and that of Aulus Vetius (a military tribune and duumvir dispensing justice) were in like manner constructed, with the consent of the people, upon the lands conceded by the decurions.
Sometimes it is an elector, sometimes a group of citizens, then again a corporation of artisans or tradesmen, who are recommending for the office of ædile or duumvir the candidate whom they prefer.
Then they are going to burn the duumvir Lucius Labeo.
One of the Pompeian inscriptions announces that the duumvir C.
Tell Pertinax I have met his late Uncle, the Duumvir of Divio, and that he accounted to me quite truthfully for all his Mother’s monies.
Give me justice against my uncle Icenus, the Duumvir of Divio in Gaul,” he said.
The Duumvir only repeated the single word, “Sacrifice.
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.
The most striking example of such a legacy is to be found on an inscription in honour of a munificent duumvir of Pisaurum.
Holconius Rufus had been ordinary duumvir five times, and twice quinquennial duumvir; he was priest of Augustus, and finally was elected patron of the town.
In such a case the presiding duumvir was to nominate the required number, they in turn an equal number, and the combined nominees had to designate a third set equal in number to themselves.
In the greater Italian cities it probably would be much more; at Pompeii the newly elected duumvir paid more than L80.
But in return for its liabilities, the position of a duumvir gave undoubted power and distinction.
They announce that a duumvir or aedile or flamen will exhibit twenty or thirty pairs of combatants on the calends of May or the ides of April.
The duumvir would undoubtedly leave him alone unless absolutely obliged to lay hands on him.
Yet theduumvir judged that it would be eminently unadvisable for him to proceed with too great severity, and to punish too many persons.
Thereupon the duumvir sentenced him to be committed to the robur, and consigned to the lowest depth thereof, there to remain till such time as he chose to reveal the required information.
But indeed at present he has brought himself to be confined only to one prevailing mistress; between whom and his wife, Duumvir passes his hours in all the vicissitudes which attend passion and affection, without the intervention of reason.
It has been suggested that Duumvir is meant for the Duke of Ormond, and this view is supported by the MS.
To the memory of Aulus Veius, son of Marcus, twice duumvir with judiciary authority, quinquennial duumvir, military tribune by the choice of the people.
The elder, Rufus, was duumvir for the fourth term in 3-2 B.
Marcus Holconius was duumvir for the fourth time in the year 3-2 B.
To the memory of Marcus Alleius Minius son of Marcus, of the tribe Menenia, duumvirwith judiciary authority.
It was erected by the widow, Alleia Decimilla, priestess of Ceres, in memory of her husband, who was duumvir in 26 A.
Emperor Caligula was duumvir of Pompeii; but the duties of the office were discharged by a prefect.
An inscription in bronze letters informs us that it was laid by the duumvir Marcus Oculatius Verus pro ludis, that is instead of the games which he would otherwise have been expected to provide.
This year the temple of Mars, vowed in the Gallic war, was dedicated by Titus Quinctius, duumvir for performing religious rites.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "duumvir" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
