centuria

I looked at the centuria of Barbies fastened in a giant frame next to the bed.

Paul Carr: The Strip Diary, Day Two: Spending a Sober Month on the Vegas Strip? Don't Forget to Bring Your Own Stripper Paul Carr 2011

I looked at the centuria of Barbies fastened in a giant frame next to the bed.

Paul Carr: The Strip Diary, Day Two: Spending a Sober Month on the Vegas Strip? Don't Forget to Bring Your Own Stripper Paul Carr 2011

They held a hurried consultation and then darted off in different directions, no doubt to demand how the expenditure of twenty million sesterces had failed to secure the centuria praerogativa.

Imperium Robert Harris 2006

The honor of being the first of the 193 centuries to vote was decided by lot, and to be a member of this centuria praerogativa, as it was known, was considered a rare blessing, for its decision often set the pattern for what followed.

Imperium Robert Harris 2006

They held a hurried consultation and then darted off in different directions, no doubt to demand how the expenditure of twenty million sesterces had failed to secure the centuria praerogativa.

Imperium Robert Harris 2006

The honor of being the first of the 193 centuries to vote was decided by lot, and to be a member of this centuria praerogativa, as it was known, was considered a rare blessing, for its decision often set the pattern for what followed.

Imperium Robert Harris 2006

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Paradise Lost Kevles, Daniel J. 1989

A legion thus contained ten maniples of every class; that is, altogether thirty maniples, each of which consisted of two _centuriae_, and each _centuria_ was commanded by a _centurio_.

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

When the _centuria prærogativa_ had been elected, the presiding magistrate sitting in a tent (_tabernaculum_,) called upon it to come and vote.

Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) Charles K. Dillaway

When I joined the militia I had been told that I should be sent to the front the next day, but in fact I had to wait while a fresh centuria was got ready.

Homage to Catalonia 1938