Lexicographical Neighbors of Decuria
Literary usage of Decuria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. M. Tullii Ciceronis Orationes: with a commentary by Marcus Tullius Cicero, George Long (1851)
"... find no mention of them except within that period when they were required on
account of the deficient number of ' praetors.' decuria retira,] ' decuria ..."
2. Textes de droit romain by Paul Frédéric Girard (1895)
"... quei in ea decuria praeco appareat. quam ... ita viator lectus erit, is in ea
decuria viator esto item utei ..."
3. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"Lat. decuria denoted, not only a captain of thirty- two men, but the foreman or
leader of the file, a corporal. Germ, rotl-meister, " a corporal, ..."
4. An Elementary Latin Dictionary by Charlton Thomas Lewis, Hugh Macmaster Kingery (1918)
"... cf. centuria], a division of ten, decuria, decade : hence, in gen., a division,
company, clam, decuria (of judges, summoned by the praetor to try causes ..."
5. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Comprising the History, Institutions by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"Each decuria is divided into three nocturns, and is said under three antiphons,
... The name decuria is plainly derived from the fact that they all, ..."
6. Remnants of Early Latin by Frederic De Forest Allen (1880)
"Thus the viatores during the transitional period would be as follows : — decuria
for 674. decuria for 675. decuria for 676. 3 app. by quaest., 671. ..."
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