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curule

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cu·rule  (kyrl)
adj.
Privileged to sit in a curule chair; of superior rank.

[Latin curlis, of a curule chair, from currus, chariot, from currere, to run; see kers- in Indo-European roots.]

curule [ˈkjʊəruːl]
adj
(Historical Terms) (in ancient Rome) of the highest rank, esp one entitled to use a curule chair
[from Latin curūlis of a chariot, from currus chariot, from currere to run]


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They took to the Greek chair, even though they had quite a number of designs to their own name in the form of ordinary chairs called Sella; couch-like seats called the Lectica; the Curule, a folding chair used mostly by Senators; and the king of them all, the Bisellium, the chair occupied by the Emperor during the games at the Colosseum.
Kuthmann brings even stronger evidence of the reverse type not being Augustus when he suggests that on pre-Flavian coins the curule chair is the seat of the living princeps, while that of DIVUS Augustus is a throne.
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