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- noun Plural form of
quinquevir .
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Examples
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But I want to know the meaning of your dark hint that some even of the _quinqueviri_ [206] are speaking out.
The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The "only man," of course, refers to the intrusion on the mysteries.] [Footnote 205: To Egypt.] [Footnote 206: This seems also to refer to the twenty agrarian commissioners, who, according to Mommsen, were divided into committees of five, and were, therefore, spoken of indifferently as _quinqueviri_ and _vigintiviri_.
The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero
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