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Definition of Decurions
1. decurion [n] - See also: decurion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decurions
Literary usage of Decurions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Roman Public Life by Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge (1901)
"Each class has its appropriate duties; to the decurions belong the higher branches
of administration, but every category of citizens has its munera ..."
2. Historic and Monumental Rome: A Handbook for the Students of Classical and by Charles Isidore Hemans (1874)
"... Puteoli) was a fit of rage provoked by the delay of an officer at that town
in collecting the sums promised by the decurions for the new construction. ..."
3. The Student's Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, William Smith (1862)
"For the decurions had not only to collect the taxes, but they were responsible
for their colleagues ; they had to take up the lands abandoned by the ..."
4. View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1882)
"But in the decline of the empire we find a striking revolution in the condition
of the decurions. Those evil days rendered necessary an immense pressure of ..."
5. History of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1899)
"But in the decline of the empire we find a striking revolution in the condition
of the decurions. Those evil days rendered necessary an immense pressure of ..."
6. A Treatise on the Election Laws in Scotland: To which is Added an Historical by Arthur Connell (1827)
"The Justinian code, published towards the middle of the sixth century, contains
a title in which the offices of decurions and of ..."
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