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vigintivirate Rom. Hist.|vaɪˈdʒɪntɪˌvaɪrət|
[ad. L. vīgintī-virāt-us, f. vīgintī-virī a board of twenty men.]
The office or position of the vigintiviri, a body of twenty men charged with certain administrative functions; this body itself.
1598R. Grenewey Tacitus, Ann. iii. vi. 72 He [Tiberius] recomended Nero, one of Germanicus children,..to the Lords of the Senat: and requested that he might be dispensed with for the office of Vigintiuirat. 1656Blount Glossogr., Vigintivirate, the Office of the Vigintiviri, or of twenty men in like authority. 1793Murphy Tacitus, Ann. iii. xxix. 196 That the young prince might be excused from serving the office of the vigintivirate. 1904Tyrrell & Purser Corr. Cicero (ed. 3) I. 319/2 Cicero..represents Caesar as having been offended at his refusal to become a member of the vigintivirate. 1976Classical Q. XXVI. 312 He was born in about a.d. 55, and..we might assign the latus clavus and a post in the vigintivirate to this reign. |