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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of American phyllostomine bats, notable in its family for the absence of a distinct nose-leaf, but having various extraordinary excrescences upon the face, which produce a most grotesque physiognomy. C. senex is the type.
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I was even more disappointed, when I first saw the cover, because, like most Hollywood-movies, it repeated a popular mistake by featering a roman centurio wearing a Weissenau-type helmet, that would not become standard issue in the roman legions for another 4 to 5 decades, while the most common helmets in the decades right before and after the turning of the eras were the Montefortino and Haguenau type helmets.
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The concern of Caballero in his Op-Ed piece is really the lack of education that Venezuela keeps suffering, a lack that is not going to be solved by a government that only aims at indoctrination to create the new bolivariano-socialisto-XXI-centurio Venezuelan man.
Sex, lies and railroads video tapes: Chavez’s magical realism 2006
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The concern of Caballero in his Op-Ed piece is really the lack of education that Venezuela keeps suffering, a lack that is not going to be solved by a government that only aims at indoctrination to create the new bolivariano-socialisto-XXI-centurio Venezuelan man.
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Captain ... head of hundred ... century ... centurio
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Thracum et paucis gregariis militibus transiere ad regem, [229] et centurio primi pili [230] tertiae legionis per munitionem, quam uti defenderet acceperat, locum hostibus introeundi dedit, eaque Numidae cuncti irrupere.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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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
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She had married a military tribune and had committed adultery with a common captain (_centurio_).
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+ (2) The various grades of officers of infantry: "captains of thousands" (sár hãalãphim, chiliarchos, tribunus); "captains of hundreds" (sár hámmeôth, ekatontarchos, centurio); "captains of fifty" (sár hamíshshîm, pentekontarchos, quinquagenarius); and
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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The “centurio,” or “leader of a hundred,” was the commanding officer of the “manipulus.”] [Footnote 96: _With a dish-clout_) -- Ver.
The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes Terence 1847
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