Quindecemvir

[kwɪnde'semvə]

解释:

(n.) One of a sacerdotal college of fifteen men whose chief duty was to take care of the Sibylline books.

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解释:

n. one of a college of fifteen men in ancient Rome who had the charge of the Sibylline books:—pl. Quindecem′viri.—ns. Quindec′agon a plane figure with fifteen sides and angles; Quindecem′virate the body of the quindecemviri or their office; Quindec′ima (mus.) the interval of a fifteenth or double-octave.

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