PROLYTAE

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  PROLYTAE, Rom. civil law. The term used to denominate students of law during 
  the fifth and last year of their studies. They were left during this year, 
  very much to their own direction, and took the name (prolytoi) Prolytae 
  omnino soluti. They studied chiefly the code and the imperial constitutions. 
  See Dig. Proef. Prim. Const. 2; Calvini Lex ad Voc.