He rose; advanced a step or two, in front of his curule chair, and in a clear slow voice gave utterance to the solemn words, which formed the exordium to all senatorial business.
Footnote 133: Pedarii were probably those senators who had not held curule office.
We cannot conceive why Caesar should have filled all thecurule offices two years before the legal time, and still less why there should be no mention anywhere of his having done so.
Such efforts were not of much importance, if the opponent desired nothing farther than by their means to procure for himself a curule chair, and then to sit in it in contentment for the rest of his life.
Thy mother herself wrapped thy small form in the consular robe and directed thy first steps to the curule chair.
Let Hell ope her jaws and all who have sat in my curule chair come and turn their backs upon their colleague.
Thou art now at the summit of both; from thine earliest years thy character was thus formed, the whole course of thy life was worthy of the curule chair; thy earliest youth outrivalled age.
Better known to us is it than Helicon; gladly we draw the curule chair and bear the fasces.
Bellona herself, surrounded by a noble band of senators, puts on the consul’s gown and lays by her shield and helmet in order to harness the sacred curule chair to her shoulders.
Let the consular fasces of Romulus open a third year, and for the third time let the warlike procession accompany thy curule litter.
The eyes of the dead were then closed, the body was washed with warm water and anointed, the limbs were straightened, and if the deceased had held a curule office a wax impression of his features was taken.
The curule magistrates, censors, and dictators wore the toga praetexta, differing from the ordinary toga only in having a purple border.
A special form of the sella was the famous curule chair (sella curulis), having curved legs of ivory (Fig.
The curule chair folded up like our camp-stools for convenience of carriage and had straps across the top to support the cushion which formed the seat.
The mulleus or calceus patricius was worn originally by patricians only, but later by all curule magistrates.
In this case curule magistrates contented themselves with merely laying aside the toga praetexta for the toga pura, and only the lower orders wore the toga pulla.
That Wen hight Nonius sits in curule chair, For Consulship Vatinius false doth swear; What is't, Catullus?
Nonius the tumour is seated in the curule chair, Vatinius forswears himself for consul's rank: prithee Catullus, why delay thine death?
And convinced that the time had arrived for striking, Cicero put it to the vote, according to the regular form, requiring those who thought with Marcus Porcius Cato, to pass over to the right of the curule chair.
Curule aediles were instituted at the same time as the praetorship, and continued throughout the Republic.
In that year tribunes of the plebs were instituted, and two aediles were given them as subordinate officials, who were afterwards known as plebeian aediles, to distinguish them from the curule magistrates of the same name.
Appius the father quarrelled with Caelius and egged on others to accuse him, though he was curuleaedile at the time.
Our friend Caelius Rufus was elected curule aedile while he was in correspondence with Cicero, and his letters give us a good idea of the condition of the mind of an ambitious young man who is bent on making the most of himself.
Of her own free choice hath Rome bestowed on thee the consul’s robe, offered thee, her avenger, the curule chair and compelled thee to adorn her annals.
Then as he stood astonished she first addressed him with flattering reproaches: “I acknowledge, revered Stilicho, that thou hast saved but not yet brought honour to the curule chair.
They moved theircurule chairs and other insignia of their authority without the city walls and proceeded with the enrolments.
To those nobles who gave their attention to money-getting must be added those plebeians who elevated themselves from the masses by means[43] of the curule magistracies.
He goes on to argue that these auspicia belong to patricians only, that no plebeian magistrate is created auspicato, that the man who wants to allow plebeians to become curule magistrates, tollit ex civitate auspicia.
Some years later, in 200, this same man was elected curule aedile.
The curule ædileship of the two brothers belongs to the year B.
Now as Marius was manifestly losing in the votes for the curule ædileship, he forthwith changed about and became a candidate for the other ædileship.
The Curule Ædiles only had the superintendence of some of the greater festivals, on which occasions they went to great expense to gratify the people and buy popularity as a means of further promotion.
He was the elder son of a wealthy Roman citizen, but no ancestor had ennobled the family by attaining curule office.
To the curule ædiles he entrusted the extinguishment of conflagrations, for which purpose he granted them six hundred slave assistants.
This latter had been curule aedile, along with Marcus AEmilius Lepidus, from the time of whose consulate this was the fifth year; and this very Lepidus had been made consul after two repulses.
They claim the offices of praetor and curule aedile, vi.
The Roman games were renewed by the curule aediles, Cneius Servilius Caepio, and Appius Claudius Centho, on account of the prodigies which had occurred.
That more ancient edifice had been built in the days of Alfred, and its nave was closely packed with the clergy of Oxford and the neighbourhood, save a circle of curule chairs reserved for the members of the Council.
After the clergy came a number of the chief officers of state, and lastly, King Henry the Second, who took his seat in the highest of the curule chairs, midmost among the others.
Meanwhile, a mighty senate was held at Kettledrum Hall, Mrs. Corklemore herself taking the curule chair.
He was twice dictator and six times consul, and occupied thecurule chair twenty-one times.
Velvet settles of the same colour stood at intervals around the walls, and half-a-dozen curule chairs of ebony inlaid with ivory, and furnished with blue silk cushions, were scattered about the room.
Seated in a curule chair by the side of His Majesty was the uncle of both, Thomas, Duke of Gloucester, the most astute man in England, and the evil angel of the King.
Besides the usual honours, a place in the circus was assigned to him and his descendants, to see the public games: a curule chair.
A person who first held a curule office, and whose ancestors had never held one, was called a novus homo, i.
Senators were alone made eligible for the tribuneship, and no former Tribune could hold any curule office.
The Curule offices were those of Dictator, Magister Equitum, Consul, Praetor, Censor, andCurule Aedile.
The nobles were the descendants of any one who had filled one of the following six curule offices, viz.
Two of the Aediles were taken from the plebeians, and two, called Curule Aediles, ranked with the higher magistrates, and might be patricians.
The curule chair of the praetor and the benches of the judges, constituting the tribunal, were here placed.
When Pilate had seated himself in the ivory curule chair of the procurator of Judea, at an early hour on Friday morning, the day of the crucifixion of Jesus, a Jerusalem mob, led by the Sanhedrin, confronted him with the prisoner.
The ivory curule chair of the procurator, or perhaps the ancient golden royal chair of Archelaus was placed upon the tessellated pavement and was designed for the use of the governor.
And for the second time that day in stalked the Countess, and sat down on the curule chair which Mistress Underdone set for her, looking like a judge, and a very stern one, too.
Queen, taking a curule chair as she spoke--the only one in the room.
They washed in silver basins, with ewers of the same costly metal; and they sat, the highest rank in curule chairs, the lower upon velvet-cove red forms or stools.
Over the head of the lady who sat in the curule chair, quietly embroidering, twenty-five years had passed since she had been styled by a poet, "the loveliest lady in all the land.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "curule" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
