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centurion

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cen·tu·ri·on  (sn-tr-n, -tyr-)
n.
The commander of a century in the Roman army.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin centuri, centurin-, from centuria, group of a hundred; see century.]
centurion
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(in ancient Rome) the officer in command of a century [Latin centurio]
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He became hated by the whole world, and also feared by those he had around him, to such an extent that he was murdered in the midst of his army by a centurion.
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Spada knew what these invitations meant; since Christianity, so eminently civilizing, had made progress in Rome, it was no longer a centurion who came from the tyrant with a message, `Caesar wills that you die.
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