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Definition of Curies
1. curie [n] - See also: curie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Curies
Literary usage of Curies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Rome by Wilhelm Ihne (1871)
"It grew out of the constitution of curies which preceded it in the course of a
gradual and natural development.i The thirty patrician curies furnished the ..."
2. Roman Constitutional History, 753-44 B.C. by John Evenson Granrud (1902)
"On the other hand, the plebeians were permitted to organize themselves legally
into families and clans (stirpes, gentes), perhaps because the curies were ..."
3. The History of Rome by Wilhelm Ihne (1871)
"It grew out of the constitution of curies which preceded it in the course of a
gradual and natural development.1 The thirty patrician curies furnished the ..."
4. The History of Roman Law from the Text of Ortolan's Histoire de la by Joseph-Louis-Elzéar Ortolan (1871)
"The meeting of the thirty curies for deliberation upon ... The jurist will
recognize this assembly of the curies as the first Roman legislative assembly. ..."
5. Historical Introduction to the Private Law of Rome by James Muirhead (1886)
"Gellius (as in note 9) says that there were calata comitia of the centuries as
well as of the curies ; but that, according to the general opinion, ..."
6. A General History of Rome from the Foundation of the City to the Fall of by Charles Merivale (1888)
"The Comitia of the curies, the centuries, and the tribes.—Their aristocratic
character.—Their respective functions.—The Senate initiates legislative ..."
7. The History of Rome by Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Leonhard Schmitz (1828)
"THE PATRICIAN HOUSES AND THE curies. THE tribes in the states of antiquity were
constituted in two ways; either according to the houses which composed them, ..."
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