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- noun Plural form of
silentiary .
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-- M.] [Footnote 87: In the palace of Constantinople there were thirty silentiaries, who were styled hastati, ante fores cubiculi, an honorable title which conferred the rank, without imposing the duties, of a senator, (Cod.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Constantinople there were thirty silentiaries, who were styled hastati, ante fores cubiculi, an honorable title which conferred the rank, without imposing the duties, of a senator, (Cod.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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