Citations:duodecimvirate


 * 1789, William Williams, Primitive History, from the Creation to Cadmus, page 482
 * Strabo ſeems to ſay, there were fronting theſe halls, (which Diodorus likewiſe ſeems to diſtinguiſh from the labyrinth, ſtyling it the work of the Duodecimvirate) 27 other halls (Pliny ſays, 16; as if he thought they belonged to the Nomes of middle Egypt, which latterly were ſo many) for the ſeveral provinces of the realm, who aſſembled there about matters of juſtice and devotion.
 * 1948, The Contemporary Review (A. Strahan), volume 174, page 184
 * When Stalin dreams of world conquest he thinks in terms of hidden treason within the gates — of a new sort of Trojan horse filled, not with men, but with ideas. It is of the very fibre of his strategy that the shaft of his ideology reach its mark, and to that end it is essential to him and to his duodecimvirate that open war shall be avoided or postponed for as long as possible and that contact, “co-operation,” broadmindedness and shilly-shallying on the part of the enemy shall indefinitely prolong the sweep of his propaganda.
 * 1984, Diane Duane, My Enemy, My Ally: A Star Trek® Novel (Pocket Books), page 22
 * He had long been fascinated by the “modified tricameral” or three-house legislative-executive branch of this Emperorless Empire. The Tricameron was comprised of a “Senate” — evenly divided against itself into a half that proposed and passed legislation, and a half that vetoed it — and a “Praetorate,” a sort of quadruple troika or duodecimvirate: twelve men and women who implemented the Senate’s decrees, declared war or peace, and (it seemed to Jim) spent most of the time squabbling amongst themselves for power.
 * 1996, Michael Peachin, Iudex vice Caesaris: Deputy Emperors and the Administration of Justice during the Principate (F. Steiner; ISBN 3515067728, 9783515067720), page 135
 * Differences begin with the duodecimvirate of Rome, which plainly has been omitted by CIL VI 1418. […] Again, it would appear that the duodecimvirate was held after the praetorship, but before the consulate.
 * 2008, Michael Somers, Galactic Exodus: Counterdance of the Cybergods, page 73
 * The logs of each member of the covert duodecimvirate displayed identical readouts.