Definitions

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  • noun One of the chief officials of the executive department of the government in ancient Carthage.

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  • noun a magistrate of ancient Carthage

Etymologies

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Latin suffes

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Examples

  • But, instead of to a judge or suffete, he was led by dark and winding ways before a mighty door of greened bronze, which loomed in front of him like the gate of Hell itself.

    Conan the Wanderer Howard, Robert E. 1974

  • In a moment all the wrongs he had suffered at their hands were forgotten; he accepted the position of dictator or _suffete_, he caused more humane laws to be passed, and not only saved the people from ruin and enabled the merchants again to sell their goods, but paid the large sum demanded as a war indemnity by Rome within the year.

    The Red Book of Heroes Mrs. Lang 1909

  • But I do not know whether it was deliberate or unconscious repetition that made Flaubert give us something like a duplicate of the suffete Hanno in Vitellius.

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

  • -- This is the regulation relative to the dues legally established by Italis-Baal, the suffete, son of Bod-tanith, son of

    In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc 1879

  • Elected a suffete (civil magistrate) in 197, Hannibal broke the power of the Carthaginian oligarchy and worked for social and economic reforms.

    unknown title 2009

  • Elected a suffete (civil magistrate) in 197, Hannibal broke the power of the Carthaginian oligarchy and worked for social and economic reforms.

    unknown title 2009

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