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cavalry officer), a Roman cavalry officer in command of a squadron Decurion (administrative), a member of a city or town council in ancient Rome This disambiguation...

mid-level landowners who served in their local curia as local magistrates and decurions. Curiales were expected to procure funds for public building projects...

an official title in Ancient Rome, used in various connections: Decurion (administrative), a member of the senatorial order in the Italian towns under the...

appointed by the consuls; and the three decurions that led each squadron (turma) of legionary cavalry (a total of 30 decurions per legion). As their name implies...

decempedal, decemvirate, decemviri, decennary, decennial, decennium, decuple, decurion, decurionate, decury, dicker, doyen, doyenne decimus decim- tenth decimal...

the ceremonies Mīr-dah or Mīr-daha: Commander or superintendent of ten: decurion; a Tithingman Mīr-sāmān: Head steward Mīr-shikār: Master of the hunt, chief...

in the senate were doing so primarily to escape the harsh duties of the decurion Theodosius I decreed that they must complete their public service even...

items were crafted for export. The city itself was run by a "senate" of decurions (the ordo decurionum) and a hierarchy of magistrates: quaestors, aediles...

senatorial rank, and the daughter of a consul, was the wife of Tussus, a decurion at Casilinum in Campania during the third or fourth century. She was perhaps...

the auxilia) that a discharge bonus may have been paid. Below centurion/decurion rank, junior officers in the Roman army were known as principales. An auxiliary...

lower end of the hierarchy. Hadrian found it necessary to clarify that decurions, the usually middle-class, elected local officials responsible for running...

questioned the Christians in 177. They also took care of elections and the Decurion council. As Capital of Gaul, Lugdunum had several important political and...

Towards the end of the empire, the civitates' own local militias, led by a decurion, likely served as the only defensive force in outlying Romanised areas...

soldiers when the century they were attached to was not in the vanguard. Decurion: commanded a cavalry unit (turma) of 10 to 30 eques legionis. Decanus:...

the lower classes—the humiliores who had not held office at the level of decurion or higher and were most of the populace—in ways that would have been intolerable...

senatorial and equestrian. Outside Rome, cities or colonies were led by decurions, also known as curiales. "Senator" was not itself an elected office in...

Historian Warren Treadgold argued that Biarchus also held the same powers as a decurion. Speidel also proposed that the rank of Biarchus derived from the rank...

highly populated. The provincial aristocracy declined; offices such as the decurions of the cities disappeared and with them the political functions of the...

a discovery at an important thermal establishment in Heerlen, where a decurion restored the complex after making a vow to Fortuna, supports this hypothesis...

remained the same as under the Principate up to and including centurion and decurion. In the new-style units, (vexillationes, auxilia, etc.), ranks with quite...