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decurion
noun[ C ]
uk /dɪˈkʊə.ri.ən/ us /dɪˈkjʊr.i.ən/
an officer in the army of ancient Rome who was responsible for ten soldiers:
This cavalry fort would have been home to 500 decurions.
The portraits reveal the slow shift in authority from decurions to governors to bishops.
In the later Roman Empire the decurion was a member of the council of a city.
He put decurions into the village for their security.
We may assume that he had been a decurion before his son because the position had become hereditary.
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