vigintiviraten.
/vʌɪˈdʒɪntɪˌvʌɪrət/ Roman History.
The office or position of the vigintiviri, a body of twenty men charged with certain administrative functions; this body itself.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > of specific number of people > in ancient Rome
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1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales 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.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Vigintivirate, the Office of the Vigintiviri, or of twenty men in like authority.
1793 A. Murphy tr. Tacitus Ann. iii. xxix. 196 That the young prince might be excused from serving the office of the vigintivirate.
1904 Tyrrell & 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.
1976 Classical Q. New Ser. 26 312 He was born in about a.d. 55, and..we might assign the latus clavus and a post in the vigintivirate to this reign.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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