Sentence example with the word 'decuries'

decuries

Last update: July 11, 2015


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The majority of the city lictors were freedmen; they formed a corporation divided into decuries, from which the lictors of the magistrates in office were drawn; provincial officials had the nomination of their own.   [Please select]

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[185] The cavalry was divided into _turmæ_, and the _turma_ into three decuries of ten men each.   [Please select]

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Numerous secret societies were formed for making a trade of the right of suffrage; they were divided into decuries, the several heads of which obeyed a supreme head, who treated with the candidates and sold the votes of the associates, either for money, or on the stipulation of certain advantages for himself or his friends.   [Please select]

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