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Definition of Decury
1. n. A set or squad of ten men under a decurion.
Definition of Decury
1. Noun. (historical) A set or squad of ten men under a decurion. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Decury
1. a group of ten soldiers in ancient Rome [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decury
Literary usage of Decury
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Roman Antiquities of Dionysius Halicarnassensis by Dionysius, Polybius (1758)
"So that, accord- with the Sabines, confided of two ing to him, each decury governed
but hundred : For, though h Plutarch, in five days : The ..."
2. The History of Rome by Barthold Georg Niebuhr, William Smith, Leonhard Schmitz, Julius Charles Hare, Connop Thirlwall (1832)
"Another, which however may also have decury, but worries himself in trying to
make the senate of a hundred tally with three tribes and thirty curies, ..."
3. Roman History by Livy (1898)
"... and the individual members who were to have the chief direction of affairs
being chosen into each decury.1 Ten governed; one only was attended by the ..."
4. The Military Annals of Greece from the Earliest Time to the Beginning of the by William Lamartine Snyder (1915)
"... not assigned to a specific decury were kept in reserve to fill vacancies in
... and the letter designating the particular panel or decury to which he ..."
5. The Legal Procedure of Cicero's Time by Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge (1901)
"They were numbered according to a regular sequence; thus Verres, we are told,
had belonged and, if acquitted, would belong to the second decury on the roll ..."
6. The World's Famous Orations by Francis Whiting Halsey (1906)
"What! are not all the laws of Caesar respecting judicial proceedings abrogated
by the law which has been proposed concerning the third decury? ..."
7. Problems of the Roman Criminal Law by James Leigh Strachan-Davidson (1912)
"If Verres be acquitted, says Cicero, nothing can prevent his having his place in
the ' Second decury '. The ' fortuna populi Romani ' is said to have ..."
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