The corpus record — Latin

quattuorviri

quattuorviri · m

the board of four

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Where it lives

Pro A. Cluentio 1 · 0.48/10k
De Bello Civili 1 · 0.31/10k

What it meant

quattŭor-vĭri — Lewis & Short

quattŭor-vĭri (quat-), ōrum, m.,

I the board of four, i. e. a body of four men associated in certain official functions; thus, in Rome, for the superintendence of the highways, Dig. 1, 2, 2; Inscr. Orell. 773; cf. ib. 3669.— In the municipia or colonies, the board of chief magistrates, Cic. Clu. 8, 25.

In the wild

quattuorviris Julius Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.23.4
quattuorviros Cicero, Pro A. Cluentio 25

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.