Meanings of curule chair in English

All the matters pertaining to the triumphal, the curule chair the letter contains.

He could scarce do less for one who had offered him the dictator's curule chair.

The Countess sat down in the low curule chair beside her bed, and drew her daughter close.

Not a word was spoken while Lentulus Crus seated himself in the ivory curule chair of office.

I simply sat here and waited. Her seat, as she spoke, might have been a curule chair.

As to the censorship, it does not appear, notwithstanding the curule chair of the censors (Liv.

Although not sacrosanct, they had the right of sitting in a curule chair and wore the distinctive toga praetexta.

One day the consul passed the open court of justice when the praetor was giving judgment from the curule chair.

Even Augustus, seated upon his curule chair, wearing his oak-leaf crown, is forced to raise an eyebrow at Herod's nerve.

He shuffled as steadily as he could to a curule chair planted in front of the desk but didn't sit down.

There were only three pieces of movable furniture, two footstools, and a curule chair, also of ebony, with a green velvet cushion.

Besides the usual honours, a place in the circus was assigned to him and his descendants, to see the public games: a curule chair.

The praetor held his court in the comitium, wore a robe bordered with purple, sat in a curule chair, and was attended by lictors.

Again Lentulus was in his curule chair, and again the solemn farce of taking the auspices, preparatory to commencing the session, was gone through.

I know not but the most curious object was a curule chair of marble, sculptured all out of one piece, and adorned with bas-reliefs.

He would have the ruthless Flavius seated on a curule chair of ivory, draped with purple, erected before a portico painted on the back cloth.