decurions

It was only later on that the persons who were in the secret of this find at the time, learned the significance of those four capital letters: quinturions, centurions, decurions, eclaireurs [scouts], and the sense of the letters: u og a fe, which was a date, and meant April 15th, 1832.

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Quintilius Priscus, who gave _crustula_ and _mulsum_ (cakes and mead) to the old people; _sportulæ_ (cold victuals?) to the decurions, and _nucum sparsiones_ (a sprinkling of nuts) for the small children.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

When those decemvirs shall, in accordance with the law of Rullus, have led six hundred colonists to that place; when they shall have established there a hundred decurions, ten augurs, and six priests, what do you suppose their courage, and violence, and ferocity will be then?

II. In Opposition to a New Agrarian Law 1906

The Prænestean senate had met in hasty session, and the _decurions_ [118] ordered the entire community under arms to hunt down the disturbers of the peace.

A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903

As the men broke their ranks, the reason of their light march was announced by the decurions.

The Last Galley Impressions and Tales Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

As the men broke their ranks, the reason of their light march was announced by the decurions.

The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

He found him in the best possible humour, laughing and making coarse jests amid a circle of decurions and optios -- as rude a Roman as marched with the standards, yet able, when occasion demanded, to play the man of fashion who had spent a year at Athens.

The Lion's Brood Duffield Osborne 1887

The nomarchs and their scribes, "continued the priest," are like decurions in an army; each one knows his ten men and reports on them.

The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt Boles��aw Prus 1879

A command was issued to all families of military rank that the men should exercise themselves in hurling missiles under direction of officers and decurions of the army.

The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt Boles��aw Prus 1879

Inferior scribes, policemen, overseers of laborers, and disguised decurions denied neither their official positions, nor this, that they were urging the people to occupy the temples.

The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt Boles��aw Prus 1879