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Decurion
Decurion De*cu"ri*on, n. [L. decurio, decurionis, fr. decuria a squad of ten, fr. decem ten.] (Rom. Antiq.) A head or chief over ten; especially, an officer who commanded a division of ten soldiers.
Decurionate
Decurionate De*cu"ri*on*ate, n. [L. decurionatus, fr. decurio.] The office of a decurion.

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- Decurio was an official title in Ancient Rome, used in various connections: Decurion (administrative), a member of the senatorial order in the Italian...
- A decurion (Latin: decurio; pl.: decuriones) was a Roman cavalry officer in command of a squadron (turma) of cavalrymen in the Roman army. During the...
- Long Second Century CE. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-757390-7. "Decurio | Military Officer, Legionary & Centurion | Britannica". www.britannica...
- payment valuing the 2nd ration based on their valor. As part of cavalry, one decurio, one duplicarius, and one sesquiplarius was ****igned to one turma. Each...
- Aurelius and his wife Faustina, is named Caesar. M. Sattonius Iucundus, decurio in Colonia Ulpia Traiana, restores the Thermae of Coriovallum (modern Heerlen)...
- The founder's inscription, according to which the sons of the deceased decurio (councillor) Dativius Victor had the arch and a portico erected in his...
- fifties, of hundreds, and of thousands. In like manner there were the decurio among the Romans and the tithingman among the early English." The most...
- Alae were divided into turmae (squadrons) of 30 (or 32) men, each under a decurio (literally: 'leader of ten'). This title derives from the old Roman cavalry...
- I Ulpia dromedariorum Palmyrenorum. The turma was still commanded by a decurio, aided by two subaltern prin****les (under-officers), a sesquiplicarius...
- valuing the additional ration based on their valor. As part of cavalry, one decurio, one duplicarius, and one sesquiplarius was ****igned to one turma. Golden...