The decurions indicated to their men the hostile crowds against which they must strike, and in the course of some minutes they covered them with a shower of stones and leaden bullets.
The nomarchs and their scribes," continued the priest, "are like decurions in an army; each one knows his ten men and reports on them.
Inferior scribes, policemen, overseers of laborers, and disguised decurionsdenied neither their official positions, nor this, that they were urging the people to occupy the temples.
A command was issued to all families of military rank that the men should exercise themselves in hurling missiles under direction of officers and decurions of the army.
In the election of a patron a quorum of two-thirds of the decurions was legally required.
Although they were steadily rising in importance and in strength of organisation, the provincial Augustales always ranked after the decurions of a town.
Pliny would have been inclined to compel the decurions to become debtors of the state, but Trajan orders the rate of interest to be put low enough to attract voluntary borrowers.
Or they are men evidently of high position and commanding influence in their province, priests of the altar of Augustus, augurs of the colony, magistrates or decurions of two or three cities.
Caesia Sabina of Veii, on the day on which her husband was entertaining all the citizens, invited the female relatives of the decurions to dinner, with the additional luxury of a gratuitous bath.
If the rich decurions catered for the pleasures of the people, it was on the condition that they retained their monopoly of political power and social precedence.
The Decurions were mutually responsible; they were obliged to undertake for pieces of ground abandoned by their owners on account of the pressure of the taxes, and, finally, to make up all deficiencies.
Note: The Decurions were charged with assessing, according to the census of property prepared by the tabularii, the payment due from each proprietor.
The lowest section of the cavea, as in the Large Theatre, consisted of four low, broad ledges on which the chairs of the decurions could be placed.
Several have been decurionswearing the white toga and the purple stripe.
Above the ranges of seats set apart for the officials and guests were those belonging to the decurions and knights, the nobility and gentry of the town and little republic.
It was remarked that the attendance in the reserved seats of the decurions was meager.
On the other hand, among the officers of the cohorts the centurions ranked above the decurionswho commanded the mounted men, where such existed.
He also considers that at this date the centurions and decurions of the auxiliary regiments were drawn from the ranks of the legions, a suggestion which has already been discussed.
The figures for the mounted men are probably correct, and, since we learn from an inscription that there were four decurions to a cohors quingenaria, we may presume that the turmae were 30 strong.
The Pompeians at last returned; but the decurions wished to make the restoration of the place a complete rejuvenation.
Afterward come the magistrates, the decurionsin mourning robes, the bier ornamented with ivory.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "decurions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
