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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In Roman antiquity, one of a body of fifteen magistrates who, at the close of the republic, had charge of the Sibylline books.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Rom. Antiq.) One of a sacerdotal college of fifteen men whose chief duty was to take care of the Sibylline books.

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