Senators from the nether world
used to translate the Lat. Orcini, Senators from the nether world, viz. those who were created after the death of Caesar, professedly on the authority of papers left behind by him, Plu. Ant. 15.
The corpus record
Χᾰρων-ῖται
*charonitai · οἱ
Senators from the nether world
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
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