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a1626 F. Bacon Proposition Lawes Eng. in Resuscitatio (1657) i. 275 In Athens, they had Sexvir [Errata: Sexviri], which were standing Commissioners, to watch, and to discern, what Lawes, waxed unproper, for the Time.

1738 J. Breval Remarks Several Parts of Europe: Tours since 1723 II. 225 (margin) L. Eros,..who, tho' he was arrived to the Rank of a Sexvir, was not ashamed to acknowledge, that he had once kept a publicke Inn.

1819 R. C. Hoare Classical Tour through Italy & Sicily 237 The erection of a statue..to T. Flavius Karus; on the dedication of which he made the customary presents to the Decurions, Sexviri, and people.

1901 A. H. J. Greenidge Rom. Public Life xi. 443 The form which the organisation assumed was the appointment of sexviri or seviri, probably by the senate of the municipal town; after the year of service they pass into the order of Augustales.

1993 M. B. Hornum Nemesis, Rom. State & Games iii. 80 The dedicant of the latter [altar] is a public official, a sexvir.