Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the Salic and other Teutonic legal systems, the president of the court of the hundred.
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If the freedman or freedwoman is less than a 'centenarius', that is, has
The Institutes of Justinian John Baron Moyle 1891
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Ultra humanam fragilitatem prolixi, ut immature pereat qui centenarius moriatur, &c. 4082.
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Decem autem Decanis pr鎝oneretur vnus, qui centenarius nuncupatur: Decem vero Centenarijs pr鎝oneretur vnus qui millenarius nuncupatur decem millenarijs pr鎝oneretur vnus, et ille numerus vocatur tenebre apud eos.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Antt.p. 62) regards this as an unmeaning expression, Heyne well observes: "numerus centenarius ponitur pro magno: et portis semel memoratis, multitudo hominum declaratur per numerum exeuntium."] [Footnote 313: Cf. Müller, Dorians, vol.i. pp. 26, 268.]
The Iliad of Homer (1873) 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1840
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