Plural of abigeus; in ancient Roman law, multiple cattle thieves or instances of cattle theft.
From Latin 'abigei' (plural of 'abigeus'). This is the plural form used in Roman legal terminology for cattle thieves or cattle-stealing crimes.
The fact that Romans had specific plural forms for cattle thieves shows how common and organized livestock theft was—it was serious enough to be its own category of criminal in the law books!
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