quinquĕvir | V, ōrum | quinquĕ-vĭri (noun M.m) : (.), , m., usu. in plur.: , , m. vir
* Board of five, the quinquevirs, a board or commission of five men for any official function. Thus, five commissioners
* For the apportionment of lands, Cic. Agr. 2, 7, 7: quinqueviros Pomptino agro dividendo creaverunt,Liv. 6, 21, 4.
* For regulating indebtedness (quinqueviri mensarii), Liv. 7, 21, 5.
* For repairing walls and towers, Liv. 25, 7, 5.
* As assistants to the tresviri for the watch by night, Liv. 39, 14; Dig. 1, 2, 2, § 31 al.
* Under the emperors, a commission to control the public expenditures: collegium quinquevirorum publicis sumptibus minuendis,Plin. Ep. 2, 1, 9.— In sing., a member of the board of five, a quinquevir: quinquevir,Cic. Ac. 2, 44, 136: scriba ex quinqueviro,Hor. S. 2, 5, 56.