Definitions
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- noun Roman history One of a
sacerdotal college of fifteen men whose chief duty was to take care of the Sibylline books.
Etymologies
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Latin, from quindecim fifteen + vir a man.
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Examples
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In one line he was Pontiff of the Sun, and of Vesta, Augur, Quindecemvir, Hierophant,
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765
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In one line he was Pontiff of the Sun, and of Vesta, Augur, Quindecemvir, Hierophant, &c., &c. In the other, 1.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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