Online Encyclopedia
Make a correction
Your email address will not appear on the site. Note, comments may take some time to be approved.
Back to article:
CURULE (Lat. currus, " chariot ")
Your email:
Article name:
Article content:
CURULE (Lat. currus, " chariot "), in Roman antiquities, the epithet applied to the chair of office, sella curulis, used by the " curule or highest magistrates and also by the emperors. This chair seems to have been originally placed in the magistrate's chariot (hence the name). ' It was inlaid with ivory or in some cases made of it, had curved legs but no back, and could be folded up like a camp-stool. In English the word is used in the general sense of " official." (See CONSUL, PRAETOR and AEDILE.)