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Decuriae was a Roman term used by Elder Pliny in his Natural History completed in 70 AD based on official registers. Each civitas had a number of decuriae assigned to it as an indication of its size. A Roman division of native
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at their heads, and each century he subdivided further into ten decuries, over each of which a decurio commanded.
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continued to rotate the government amongst themselves for a year until the election and accession of
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divided the whole Roman people into three tribes, over each of which he appointed a
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governed Rome for five days. In a rotating manner, each man within a
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reigned for 12 hours, six by day and six by night, as
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Decuriae
Ancient Rome
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decurio
Roman cavalry
turma
Romulus
tribune
centuries
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interregnum
Roman Senate
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Numa Pompilius
Roman unit of measurement
civitas
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Natural History
Plutarch
Livy
Ab urbe condita
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