| The designation suited the early years of the Empire, in which a dyarchy of princeps and senate had been maintained. |
| Further, they regarded it as decisive proof that the two superpowers were being drawn, however reluctantly, into the creation of a world-wide dyarchy. |
| This system of dyarchy was abolished by the Government of India Act, which gave the provincial assemblies full responsibility for government. |
| The allegedly post-Lycurgan ephorate was abolished, the gerousia made subject to annual re-election, the dyarchy transformed into a de facto monarchy. |
| The President of the Republic of France is, ex officio, also prince of the dyarchy called Andorra. |
