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|lshtext=<b>cūrĭa</b>: ae, f. kindr. [[with]] [[Quiris]], [[Quirites]]; cf. the [[letter]] C,<br /><b>I</b> a [[curia]] or [[court]], one of the [[thirty]] parts [[into]] [[which]] [[Romulus]] divided the Roman [[people]], [[ten]] for [[each]] of the [[three]] tribes; [[each]] [[curia]] contained [[ten]] gentes, Varr. ap. [[Dion]]. Hal. 2, 83; Liv. 1, 13, 6; Aur. Vict. Vir. Ill. 2, 12; Dig. 1, 2, 2; Paul. ex Fest. p. 49, 1 Müll.—<br /><b>II</b> [[Meton]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> A [[structure]] built for the [[religious]] services of a [[curia]] ([[sometimes]] also serving for [[other]] purposes), Varr. L. L. 5, § 155 Müll.; Fest. p. 174, 6 ib.: veteres, on the [[east]] [[side]] of the Palatine Hill, Varr. l. l. ib.; Tac. A. 12, 24; called [[curia]] prisca, Ov. F. 3, 140; Fest. l. l.: Novae, id. l. l.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Hence, [[dies]] curiae, a [[festival]] [[day]], Cic. de Or. 1, 7. 27.—Hence,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> One of the edifices in [[which]] the Senate held its consultations.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Commonly κατ ἐξοχήν, the Curia Hostilia built by [[Tullus]] [[Hostilius]] (in [[reference]] to the [[later]] Curia Julia and Pompeiana,<br /> v. [[infra]]), the Curia, Senate-[[house]], Varr. L. L. 5, § 155 Müll.; Liv. 1, 30, 2; Plin. 35, 4, 7, § 22; Varr. L. L. 6, § 46; id. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 57, 5; Cic. Rep. 2, 17, 31; id. Cat. 4, 1, 2; id. Fl. 24, 57; id. Mil. 33, 89; Quint. 11, 1, 47; Ov. M. 15, 802. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Curia Julia, the Senate-[[house]] begun by [[Julius]] Cæsar, [[finished]] by the triumvirs, and used by the Senate [[after]] the [[burning]] of the Curia Hostilia, Suet. Calig. 60.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Curia [[Pompeii]] or Pompeja, the Senate-[[house]] built by [[Pompey]], [[finally]] closed [[after]] the [[assassination]] of [[Julius]] Cæsar in it, Cic. Div. 2, 9, 23; Suet. Caes. 80 sq. et saep.—Hence, trop., as [[emblem]] of [[law]]: stante urbe et curiā, Cic. Planc. 29, 71: pro [[curia]] inversique [[mores]], Hor. C. 3, 5, 7; of the [[senatorial]] [[rank]]: [[curia]] pauperibus clausa est, Ov. Am. 3, 8, 55.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> Of the places of [[assembly]] of [[high]] councils [[out]] of [[Rome]], Cic. Att. 6, 1, 6; id. Verr. 2, 2, 21, § 50; Liv. 24, 24, 4; Ov. M. 13, 197; Juv. 9, 101.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>D</b> The [[assembly]] of the Senate, the Senate (cf. Cic. de Or. 3, 42, 167): a curiā nulla me res divellet, Cic. Att. 1, 20, 3: aliquem in curiam introducere, Liv. 22, 1, 14; 2, 23, 11 sq.; 2, 24, 3; Suet. Caes. 22; id. Aug. 38; Hor. C. 2, 1, 14 et saep.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>E</b> Curia [[Calabra]], so called from the [[proclamation]] of the dates [[which]] [[was]] [[there]] made; v. [[Calabra]].—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>F</b> Curia Saliorum, the [[official]] [[building]] of the [[Salii]] on the Palatine Hill, [[consecrated]] to [[Mars]], in [[which]] the [[sacred]] [[lituus]] [[was]] kept, Cic. Div. 1, 17, 30.

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