Definition of "duumvir" []

• A member of a duumvirate. (noun)

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• "They stayed in the comfortable coolness of the house of the chief ethnarch, though these days he was a Roman citizen, and pretended he was more at ease being called a duumvir than an ethnarch."
• "Malluch lingered to say, quickly, "The duumvir was a Roman, yet I see his son in the garments of a Jew.""
• "It had been vowed by the Dictator Postumius in the Latin war; his son was appointed "duumvir" for its dedication."