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centurio

centurio · v. a

to divide into centuries

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Where it lives

Historiae 68 · 13.21/10k
Avidius Cassius 3 · 11.5/10k
De Bello Civili 34 · 10.53/10k
De Bello Hispaniensi 6 · 9.91/10k
Annales 79 · 8.89/10k
Pescennius Niger 2 · 8.78/10k
Pro M. Tullio 3 · 8.73/10k
De Bello Africo 11 · 8.46/10k
Commentariolum Petitionis 3 · 6.91/10k
C. Caligula 5 · 6.55/10k
Didius Julianus 1 · 6.29/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 4 · 5.93/10k

Densest 12 of 87 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. centŭrĭo — Lewis & Short

centŭrĭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.centuria,

I to divide into centuries (acc. to centuria, I.).

I Of land: agrum, Hyg. Lim. p. 195 Goes.; cf. Fest. p. 53 Müll.—

II Of the army (only of infantry; cf. decurio), to arrange in centuries, assign to companies: cum homines in tribunali Aurelio palam conscribi centuriarique vidissem, Cic. Red. Quir. 5, 13: rem gerit palam (Octavius); centuriat Capuae; dinumerat. Jam jamque vides bellum, id. Att. 16, 9 fin.: juventutem, Liv. 25, 15, 9: seniores quoque, id. 6, 2, 6; 29, 1, 2: equites decuriati, centuriati pedites, id. 22, 38, 3; so id. 10, 21, 4: Juventus Romana... equis delapsa se ipsam centuriavit, i. e. reduced to infantry, Val. Max. 3, 2, n. 8: mulus centuriatus, for carrying provisions, Aur. ap. Vop. Aur. 7, 7.—

B Facetiously: eripiam ego hodie concubinam militi, Si centuriati bene sunt maniplares mei, Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 3; cf. id. Curc. 4, 4, 29.—

III Of the people in the meeting of the council, only part. perf.: comitia centuriata, in which all the Roman people voted according to centuries (this was done in the choice of higher magistrates, in decisions in respect to war and peace, and, until Sulla's time, in questions affecting life or citizenship; cf. Messala ap. Gell. 13, 15, 4; Lael. Felix ib. 15, 27, 4; Cic. Red. Sen. 11, 27), Cic. Leg. 3, 19, 44: quod ad populum centuriatis comitiis tulit, id. Phil. 1, 8, 19; Liv. 3, 55, 3; 8, 12, 15.—Facetiously: Pseudolus mihi centuriata capitis habuit comitia, i. e. has sentenced me to death, Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 134 Lorenz ad loc.—Hence, P. a.: centŭrĭā-tus, a, um, of or belonging to the comitia centuriata: Centuriata lex, advised in the comitia centuriata, Cic. Agr. 2, 11, 26.

2. centŭrĭo — Lewis & Short

centŭrĭo (in many inscriptions before the time of Quintilian erroneously aspirated chenturio, like

I choronae, praechones, etc., Quint. 1, 5, 20; cf. the letter C), ōnis, m. (access. form centŭrĭōnus, like curionus and decurionus, acc. to Fest. p. 49 Müll.) [centuria, II.], the commander of a century, a captain, centurion, occupying a station below the tribunus, Caes. B. G. 1, 40; 2, 25; 6, 39; Cic. Balb. 15, 34; Sall. J. 59, 3; Liv. 2, 27, 6; 7, 41, 5; Hor. S. 1, 6, 73; cf. Dict. of Antiq.

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