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Duumvir  n.  (pl. E. duumvirs, L. duumviri)  (Rom. Antiq.) One of two Roman officers or magistrates united in the same public functions.






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... is the author of a group of three epigrams (/Anth. Pal./ ix. 7-9), which have a high seriousness rare in the work of this period. He has been probably identified with a C. Julius Polyaenus who is known from coins to have been a duumvir of Corinth (Colonia Julia) under Nero. He was a native of Corcyra, to which he retired after a life of much toil and travel, apparently as a merchant. The epigram by Polyaenus of Sardis (/Anth. ...
— Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology • J. W. Mackail



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