Duccius[?] - inscriptions, notably a tombstone of Lucius Duccius Rufinus at York[2] (http://museums.ncl.ac.uk/archive/arma/contents/iconog/tombston/cent1/uk/york/duccius.htm)
... is a term for someone with absolute governmental power, from the Greek language turannos. In Classical Antiquity[?] it did not always have inherently negative ...