The corpus record — Latin

quindĕcim-prīmi

the board of fifteen chief magistrates

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What it meant

quindĕcim-prīmi — Lewis & Short

quindĕcim-prīmi, ōrum,

I the board of fifteen chief magistrates in the municipia, in MSS. abbrev. XV. primi: evocat ad se Caesar Massiliensium XV. primos, Caes. B. C. 1, 35, 1; so perh. also Inscr. Murat. 626, 1.

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.