Ancients

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ancients
       n : people who lived in times long past (especially during the
           historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in
           western Europe)

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



  ANCIENTS, English law. A term for gentlemen in the Inns of Courts who are of
  a certain standing. In the Middle Temple, all who have passed their readings
  are termed ancients. In Gray's Inn, the ancients are the oldest barristers;
  besides which the society consists of benchers, barristers and students. In
  the Inas of Chancery, it consists of ancients, and students or clerks.