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- noun Plural form of
Quindecemvir .
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Quindecemvirs, and this is believed to have been the origin of the
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Fifteen keepers of the Sibylline books (their name of Quindecemvirs was derived from their number) occasionally consulted the history of future, and, as it should seem, of contingent, events.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Fifteen keepers of the Sibylline books (their name of Quindecemvirs was derived from their number) occasionally consulted the history of future, and, as it should seem, of contingent, events.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Edward Gibbon 1765
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These were the Sibylline books, which the Romans consulted as a divine oracle by some one of the Quindecemvirs, and this is believed to have been the origin of the Quindecemvirate.
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These were the Sibylline books, which the Romans consulted as a divine oracle by some one of the Quindecemvirs, and this is believed to have been the origin of the Quindecemvirate.
The Love of Books The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury Richard de Bury 1316
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Fifteen keepers of the Sibylline books (their name of Quindecemvirs was derived from their number) occasionally consulted the history of future, and, as it should seem, of contingent, events.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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