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decurio1

decurio1 · v. a

to divide into decuriae

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Where it lives

Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino 3 · 2.26/10k
Divus Augustus 3 · 2.24/10k
Gordiani Tres 1 · 1.8/10k
Pro P. Sestio 3 · 1.79/10k
Pro Cn. Plancio 2 · 1.72/10k
Pro A. Cluentio 3 · 1.44/10k
Letters 9 · 1.39/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Metamorphoses 6 · 1.12/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
De Lege Agraria 1 · 0.73/10k

Densest 12 of 28 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. dĕcŭrĭo — Lewis & Short

dĕcŭrĭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.decuria,

I to divide into decuriae.

I Prop.: equites decuriati, centuriati pedites, Liv. 22, 38, v. preced. art.—Esp. to divide the people into companies or clubs for purposes of bribery and corruption: servorum delectus habebatur ... cum vicatim homines conscriberentur, decuriarentur, Cic. Sest. 15: decuriasse Plancium, conscripsisse, etc., id. Planc. 18, 45; cf. ib. 19, 47; id. Phil. 7, 6, 18; id. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 5, and v. decuriatio.— *

II Trop.: vertex incrementis lustralibus decuriatus, i. e. of a man ten lustres old, Mart. Cap. 1, p. 1.

2. dĕcŭrĭo — Lewis & Short

dĕcŭrĭo, ōnis (also DECURES decuriones, Paul. ex

Fest. p. 71, 22, and 75, 9 Müll.;

I and DECVRIONVS, the same, ib. 49, 16), m. id., the head or chief of a decuria, a decurion. The name was first given by Romulus to the head of the tenth part of a curia (cf. Nieb. Röm. Gesch. 1, p. 354). In the army, the commander of a decuria of cavalry, Varr. L. L. 5, § 91 Müll.; Veget. Mil. 2, 14; Caes. B. C. 1, 23; 1, 13; Tac. A. 13, 40; id. H. 2, 29. After the extension of the Roman dominion, the members of the senate of the municipia and the colonies were called decuriones, Dig. 50, 16, 239; 50, 2; Cod. Just. 10, 31; Cic. Sest. 4, 10; id. Rosc. Am. 9, 25; id. Clu. 14, 41; Vulg. Marc. 15, 43.—Sometimes i. q. praefectus, applied to the overseer of the persons employed in any duty about the court, e. g. a head-chamberlain: cubiculariorum, Suet. Dom. 17, PROCVLVS DECVRIO GERMANORVM (i. e. custodum corporis) TI. GERMANICI, Inscr. Orell. 2923.

In the wild

decuriones Suetonius, Divus Augustus 46.1
decuriones Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.3.38
decurio Suetonius, Domitianus 17.2
decurionum Apuleius, Metamorphoses 10.6
decurionis Apuleius, Metamorphoses 10.1
decurioque Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 13.30.1

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