They wore a robe edged with violet color, sat in their chairs of state called curule chairs, and were attended by twelve lictors each. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01] Reference
At sundown Gaius Marius rose from his curule chair. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
He turned to the curule podium and looked at the senior consul. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Not from any other curule magistrate empowered under this decree. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
My sons will have to seek the curule aedileship — punitively expensive!. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
Seated on a curule chair, Sulla in toga praetexta and full Roman majesty glared. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Sulla was waiting for them inside the chamber, seated on his ivory curule chair. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
During the waiting period, the curule men will assume a new importance in the House. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
'That's not so bad,' Strongfist settled himself more comfortably in the curule chair. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
He just can't inherit any of the family property or money, nor stand as a curule magistrate. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
I could not rise to my feet. â âThe woman on the curule chair looked down upon me. From Wordnik.com. [Magicians of Gor]
But you have to do it now, before he's allowed his ovation, and well before the curule elections. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Quinctilis brought the three sets of elections, with the curule Centuriate Assembly ones held first. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
When the Kalends of January arrived, Rome had no curule magistrates; the elections had not been held. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
The newly appointed temporary Princeps Senatus and junior consul shifted on his curule chair, frowning. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Pompey held the fasces for the month of September, and sat upon his curule chair at the front of the dais. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
I confess that I assumed I was first to help put down open revolt, and only then hold the curule elections. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
“The present law courts are clumsy, time-consuming and not realistic,” said Sulla from his curule chair. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
And there, seated on his ivory curule chair to one side of the president's tribunal, was Lucius Cornelius Sulla. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Once you elected to set yourself upon a tribunal with toga praetexta and curule chair and lictors, you became Rome. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
The patricians, now that the republic was without any curule magistrate, assembled together and elected an interrex. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference
Then he turned to the curule podium and gazed at the discomfited Gaius Cotta, whose face reflected his state of mind. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Yes, the lot did fall upon me, and under our new constitution that means I alone can officiate at the curule elections. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Maybe the young man was correct about vaulting into the consul's curule chair on his spear rather than on a wave of words. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Because of Lucius Octavius's state of chronic ill health, only one consul, Gaius Aurelius Cotta, occupied the curule chair. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Apollo's games last until the Ides of Quinctilis, then there are three sets of elections five days apart-curule, People, Plebs. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
But though the father did nothing for his sons by holding curule office himself, he did the best for their education that was possible. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference
Senator Wigfall galloped along, with his pants stuck in his boots and seeming to enjoy the saddle much more than the curule chair; and often. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
Anciently, this right of images was peculiar to the Patricians; but afterwards, the Plebeians also acquired it, when admitted to curule offices. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference
Nor can that now be alleged, which they used formerly to boast of, that there were not among the plebeians qualified persons for curule magistracies. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference
Besides the usual honours, a place in the circus was assigned to him and his descendants, to see the public games; a curule chair was fixed in that place. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference
Cæsar became an official known as quæstor, going to Spain in charge of certain affairs pertaining to Roman government, and later on he was made a curule ædile. From Wordnik.com. [A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.] Reference
Hither they brought the curule seats or bisellia, described in speaking of the theatres of Pompeii; and here was the suggestus, a covered seat appropriated to the Emperor. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
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