Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The dignity or office of a decurion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The office of a decurion.
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- noun The position or office of a
decurion .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But Honorius rendered them ineligible for civil or military service, leaving open to them only the bar and the decurionate, the latter being a _privilegiium odiosum_.
Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881
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He is accused of having taken away the levying of taxes and payment of the troops from the municipal authorities, (the decurionate) in the Eastern cities, and intrusted it to an extortionate officer named Mannus.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765
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He is accused of having taken away the levying of taxes and payment of the troops from the municipal authorities, (the decurionate) in the Eastern cities, and intrusted it to an extortionate officer named Mannus.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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If any one belongs in a larger or smaller town and desiring to avoid the same, betakes himself to another for the sake of dwelling there, and shall have attempted to make petitions concerning this or shall have relied upon any sort of fraud that he may escape the birth from his own city, let him bear the burden of the decurionate of both cities, of one because it was his choice, of the other because of his birth.
A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905
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