What is "decurions"

Usage examples of "decurions".

The laborious offices, which could be productive only of envy and reproach, of expense and danger, were imposed on the Decurions, who formed the corporations of the cities, and whom the severity of the Imperial laws had condemned to sustain the burdens of civil society.

This Indulgence was allow'd him, and Pliny wrote to the Decurions to assign the Ground that was proper for that Purpose.

For he was prov'd, by the Accounts of Martianus, and by his own Discourse on the Bench of the Decurions of Leptis, to have lent his Assistance to Priscus in a very dishonourable Service, and to have contracted, on the Account of Martianus, for 50000 Denarii.

He wrote it publickly, that the Decurions might pitch upon one of the loudest among themselves to read it to the People.

I would therefore desire you, at the next Meeting of the Decurions, to shew, what the Law is.

The laborious offices, which could be productive only of envy and reproach, of expense and danger, were imposed on the Decurions, who formed the corporations of the cities, and whom the severity of the Imperial laws had condemned to sustain the burdens of civil society.

Then the o enturionS would say to their decurions: O, we shall attack by moonlight and be massacred.

File-closers and decurions moved in with halberds and two-handed swords.

Two decurions and an antecenturion were sprawled nearby on the deck, dead or dying.