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Quotation dates: 1533
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Quirites, -is. (L.: the name for the citizens of Rome, collectively, used formally in addition to Romani etc., ‘originally, the inhabitants of the Sabine town Cures’ (Lewis and Short).) — 1533 Bell. Livy I 76/20.
Becaus the prisk Latyne pepill … has faleȝit or done iniuris aganis the Quirites & Romane pepil 1533 Ib. 76/22.
Or ellis the Quiritis and senate of Rome has [etc.]
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