| 单词 |
quindecemvir |
| 释义 |
quindecemvir Rom. Antiq.|kwɪndɪˈsɛmvə(r)| [L., f. quindecim fifteen + vir man.] A member of a body, commission, etc., of fifteen men; esp. one of the priests who had charge of the Sibylline books.
1601Holland Pliny I. 177 One of the fifteen Quindecemvirs deputed for diuision of lands among the souldiers. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xxviii. III. 70 Fifteen keepers of the Sybilline books (their name of Quindecemvirs was derived from their number). Hence quindeˈcemvirate, ‘the body of fifteen priests and their office’ (Craig 1848). |

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