Batavian, but he is a decurion who may have been transferred on promotion from another corps.
They are not to be thought of as merely commanding turmae, since we have a decurion mentioned in Bell.
It may also be noted that both optio and vexillarius could be promoted to the position of decurionwithout any intervening step.
The young general, whose military cloak flaunted a purple border, called thedecurion boyishly: "Well done, Sergius!
The decurion swung around him and went back to the horses that waited in the road.
You have been misinformed," the decurion said gravely, while his men, circling around the growling dog, went on with their work.
The decurion in charge of the squad brought up his gray horse with such suddenness that the animal's feet slid in the gravel.
Salute them for me," thedecurion shouted back, "and make them my obeisances, and say that I shall report on the flavor of the sheep by messenger from Jerusalem.
The decurion was losing patience and the shepherd had grown more than ever serious.
The adoption of the same faith made the poor freedman the equal and sometimes the superior, of the decurion and the clarissimus.
Then, returning home, he summoned the decurion of police, and informed him that Phut might be a dangerous person.
And dost Thou know, worthy lord," continued the innkeeper, "what that decurion answered?
But the decurion knows not the general plan made by leaders of the army.
After that, it was unknown whence, a decurion of the police appeared, and when he had conducted Asarhadon to a remote window, he conversed long with him.
A decurion of ten policemen knows the whole street, a centurion a division of the city, the chief knows all the city.
The decurion gave Paulus a letter, directed in the same handwriting, folded in the same style, and its silk thread sealed with the same device of a frog, as a certain communication which he had once before received.
Paulus, after reading this note, begged the decurion to wait, and, turning to Lygdus, asked his business.
The slave had one of the worst countenances, and the decurion one of the most honest, that Paulus in his very limited or Thellus in his immense experience had ever beheld.
And dost thou know, worthy lord," continued the innkeeper, "what that decurion answered?
Cicero said that it was easier to be a Senator at Rome than a decurion at Pompeii.
Lead the men forward," he added, turning round in his saddle to the second Decurion of his troop, "my good Drusus.
It was the voice of Paullus, who now strode into the gap, left by the opening concourse, glittering in the full panoply of a decurion of the horse, thirty dismounted troopers arranging themselves in a glittering line behind him.
Again, humbler folk would retreat into wagon-ways or hug the walls to permit the passage of a Sadducee and his retinue, or a decurion and his squad--rank and power asserting their inexorable prerogative.
His death would be a plain announcement to the decurion class that its domination was at an end.
The exercise of the rights of citizenship, the election of the officials, the qualification for filling the superior secular and religious offices, belonged to the decurion or noble families.
And that of the gods with you," the decurion replied.
Exclamations became general, and the decurion hastened to stop them.
The day after that again, about noon, a decurion with his command of ten horsemen approached Nazareth from the south--that is, from the direction of Jerusalem.
At the well the decurion halted, and, with most of the men, dismounted.
But the temper of the decurion was not as it had been; he himself raised the prisoner from the dust, and helped him on a horse behind a soldier.
He had fought under the Imperial flag and attained the rank of a Decurion (p.
There was a halt beside the little marble pavilion near the palace steps, where the decurion turned Narcissus over to an attendant in palace uniform, but no comment; the palace was too used to seeing favorites of one day in disgrace the next.
Drenched guards, posted near the eaves where water splashed on them clanged their shields in darkness as the decurion passed; there was not a square yard of the palace grounds unwatched.
A decurion stepped out beneath a splashing arch, the lamplight gleaming on his wetted bronze and crimson.
He began to feel thoroughly frightened, as he told himself that the escort and theirdecurion would swear to any statement Marcia might make.
The decurion returned and laid a long, lean dagger on the table.
The decurion beckoned them into the guard-house, where a fire burned in a bronze tripod, casting a warm glow on walls hung with shields and weapons.
An escort of twenty praetorian guards and a decurion was waiting at the gate to take its place between the lictors and Marcia's litter, but that did not in any way increase Livius' sense of security.
Again the Numidian was quicker, and, gaining his feet, he sprang, weaponless as he was, upon the decurion still struggling to untangle himself from his fallen horse.
Suddenly a decurion of the allies dashed up beside them.
At last he stirred slightly, and the decurion turned and looked down.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "decurion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
