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- noun Plural form of
septemvir .
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For we all agreed with him and annulled the acts of the septemvirs.
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero
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And although all these proceedings cannot be ratified, if you annul his laws, still I think that they ought all to be separately taken note of, article by article; and that we ought formally to decide that the appointment of septemvirs was null and void; and that nothing is ratified which is said to have been done by them.
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Ant.P. 394-396, v. _Equites_] [Footnote 37: He had been one of the septemvirs appointed to preside over the distribution of the lands.] [Footnote 38: Janus was the name of a street near the temple of Janus, especially frequented by bankers and usurers.
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero
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