centumviri

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

centum -vĭri or centum vĭri, ōrum, m.,

a college or bench of judges chosen annually for civil suits , especially those relating to inheritances; consisting of 105 (in the time of the emperors, of 180) persons , Cic. de Or. 1, 38, 175; id. Caecin. 24, 67; Quint. 3, 10, 3; 4, 2, 5 Spald.; 4, 1, 57; 7, 4, 10; Suet. Aug. 36; id. Dom. 8; Plin. Ep. 6, 33 al.; cf. Fest. s. v. centumviralia, pp. 54 and 64 Müll., and Dict. of Antiq.—Such a college at Perusia, Inscr. Orell. 3719; at Veii, ib. 108; 3448; 3706 al.

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