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Quinqueviri (the Five Commissioners)

the five-men

also: the five, Vviri

An inner committee of five drawn from the twenty land commissioners of Caesar's agrarian law of 59 BC. Cicero seizes on a hint that even these five are now quarrelling as a sign of the coalition fracturing (Att. 2.7.4).

Mentioned in 10 works (11 total)

On Invention rhetoric · 1 mention
Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book II speeches · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 2.7 letters · 1 mention
For Publius Sestius speeches · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 5.4 letters · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 5.13 letters · 1 mention
Brutus rhetoric · 2 mentions
Timaeus (Latin translation) philosophy · 1 mention
On Divination philosophy · 1 mention
First Philippic speeches · 1 mention

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