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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

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

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 Rae, John

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

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