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centumviri

centumviri · m

a college

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Where it lives

Dialogus de Oratoribus 2 · 2.15/10k
Letters 9 · 1.39/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
De Oratore 4 · 0.66/10k
Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k
Institutio Oratoria 6 · 0.35/10k
Controversiae 2 · 0.3/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

centum -vĭri — Lewis & Short

centum -vĭri or centum vĭri, ōrum, m.,

I a college or bench of judges chosen annually for civil suits, especially those relating to inheritances; consisting of 105 (in the time of the emperors, of 180) persons, Cic. de Or. 1, 38, 175; id. Caecin. 24, 67; Quint. 3, 10, 3; 4, 2, 5 Spald.; 4, 1, 57; 7, 4, 10; Suet. Aug. 36; id. Dom. 8; Plin. Ep. 6, 33 al.; cf. Fest. s. v. centumviralia, pp. 54 and 64 Müll., and Dict. of Antiq.—Such a college at Perusia, Inscr. Orell. 3719; at Veii, ib. 108; 3448; 3706 al.

In the wild

centumviri Cicero, De Oratore 1.176
Centumviri Pliny the Younger, Letters 2.14.11
centumviros Tacitus, Dialogus de Oratoribus 7.1
centumviros Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 5.10.115
centumviros Pliny the Younger, Letters 2.14.10
centumviros Cicero, De Oratore 1.180

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