decurio

Latin > English

decurio decuriare, decuriavi, decuriatus V TRANS :: make (cavlary) squads of ten; organize in military fashion; enrol in decuria
decurio decurio decurionis N M :: decurion, officer commanding a decuria (calvary squad); (also naval); foreman
decurio decurio decurionis N M :: member of municipal senate/governing committee of decuria; councillor

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

dĕcŭrĭo: āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. decuria,
I to divide into decuriae.
I Prop.: equites decuriati, centuriati pedites, Liv. 22, 38, v. preced. art.—Esp. to divide the people into companies or clubs for purposes of bribery and corruption: servorum delectus habebatur ... cum vicatim homines conscriberentur, decuriarentur, Cic. Sest. 15: decuriasse Plancium, conscripsisse, etc., id. Planc. 18, 45; cf. ib. 19, 47; id. Phil. 7, 6, 18; id. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 5, and v. decuriatio.— *
II Trop.: vertex incrementis lustralibus decuriatus, i. e. of a man ten lustres old, Mart. Cap. 1, p. 1.
dĕcŭrĭo: ōnis (also DECURES decuriones, Paul. ex Fest. p. 71, 22, and 75, 9 Müll.;
I and DECVRIONVS, the same, ib. 49, 16), m. id., the head or chief of a decuria, a decurion. The name was first given by Romulus to the head of the tenth part of a curia (cf. Nieb. Röm. Gesch. 1, p. 354). In the army, the commander of a decuria of cavalry, Varr. L. L. 5, § 91 Müll.; Veget. Mil. 2, 14; Caes. B. C. 1, 23; 1, 13; Tac. A. 13, 40; id. H. 2, 29. After the extension of the Roman dominion, the members of the senate of the municipia and the colonies were called decuriones, Dig. 50, 16, 239; 50, 2; Cod. Just. 10, 31; Cic. Sest. 4, 10; id. Rosc. Am. 9, 25; id. Clu. 14, 41; Vulg. Marc. 15, 43.—Sometimes i. q. praefectus, applied to the overseer of the persons employed in any duty about the court, e. g. a head-chamberlain: cubiculariorum, Suet. Dom. 17, PROCVLVS DECVRIO GERMANORVM (i. e. custodum corporis) TI. GERMANICI, Inscr. Orell. 2923.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

(1) dĕcŭrĭō,¹³ āvī, ātum, āre (decuria), tr.,
1 distribuer par décuries : equites Liv. 22, 38, 3, distribuer les cavaliers en décuries
2 [fig.] enrôler par décuries, former des factions, des cabales : Cic. Sest. 34 ; Planc. 45 ; Phil. 7, 18.
(2) dĕcŭrĭō,¹¹ ōnis, m., décurion, officier qui primitivement commandait dix cavaliers : Varro L. 5, 91 ; Cæs. G. 1, 23, 2 || décurion, sénateur dans les villes municipales ou dans les colonies : Cic. Sest. 10 ; Clu. 41 || décurion, chef de personnel du palais : Suet. Dom. 17.

Latin > German (Georges)

(1) decurio¹, āvī, ātum, āre (decuria), nach Dekurien (Rotten von zehn Mann) abteilen, in Dekurien einteilen, a) als milit. t. t.: suā voluntate ipsi inter se equites decuriati, centuriati pedites coniurabant etc., Liv. 22, 38, 3. – b) als. publiz. t. t., das Volk, um es in einzelnen Abteilungen zu bestechen, aufzuwiegeln usw., homines vicatim, Cic.: tribules, Cic.: rursus improbos, Cic.: ut sodalitates decuriatique discederent, Cic.: absol., decuriasse Plancium, Cic.
(2) decurio², ōnis, m. (decuria), der Vorsteher einer Dekurie, der Dekurio, a) als Führer einer Reiterdekurie (Rotte), der Rottmeister (s. Varro LL. 5, 19. Veget. mil. 2, 14), d. equitum Gallorum, Caes. b. G. 1, 23, 2: d. equitum, Auct. b. Afr. 29, 4. Tac. ann. 13, 40; hist. 2, 29. – b) als Senator in Munizipien u. Kolonien, Ratsherr, Plur. = Senat, Cic. u.a.: decurionem (zum D.) facere alqm, Fronto: decuriones, quibus est ius dicendae sententiae, Stadtrichter, Apul. de mund. 35. – c) (= praefectus) als Vorsteher des Personals einer Hofscharge, cubiculariorum, Kammerherr, Suet. Dom. 17, 2.

Spanish > Greek

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