quinquevir (V.), i, m., usu. in plur.: quinque-viri, ōrum, 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.