quindecimvir: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>quindĕcimvir</b>: (plur. in inscrr. [[usually]] X[dibreve]V. VIRI, [[but]] also written in [[full]], QVINDECIM VIRO SACRIS FACIVNDIS, Inscr. Grut. 476, 7, of A. D. 346), vĭri (separated, [[quindecim]] [[Diana]] [[preces]] virorum, Hor. C. S. 70), m. [[quindecim]]-vir,<br /><b>I</b> a [[member]] of a [[college]], [[commission]], or [[board]] of [[fifteen]] men for [[any]] [[official]] [[function]]. — Usually in plur.: quindĕcimvĭri, gen. ūm and ōrum, the [[college]] or [[board]] of [[fifteen]] men, the [[fifteen]]. So esp.,<br /><b>I</b> In [[Rome]], the quindecimviri Sibyllini or sacris faciundis, a [[college]] of priests [[who]] had [[charge]] of the Sibylline books, from [[which]], in times of [[danger]], [[they]] divined the [[means]] of [[averting]] the [[peril]] by [[religious]] rites, Hor. l. l.; Tac. A. 6, 12 fin.; Inscr. Orell. 1100; 2263 sq.; 2351.— Gen. plur.: quindecimvirum, Tac. l. l.: quindecemvirum conlegi [[magister]], Plin. 28, 2, 3, § 12.—Sing.: L. [[Cotta]] [[quindecimvir]] sententiam dicturus, Suet. Caes. 79; Tac. A. 6, 12, 1: [[quindecimvir]] sacris faciundis, Gell. 1, 12. —<br /><b>II</b> Quindecimviri agris dandis, [[fifteen]] commissioners for apportioning lands, Plin. 7, 43, 45, § 139.