Curule

They wore a robe edged with violet color, sat in their chairs of state called curule chairs, and were attended by twelve lictors each. ❋ Rossiter Johnson (1885)

His curule chair was placed on the doorstep and he sat there in the shade, reading through some letters, surrounded by his lictors, waiting for the auguries to be taken. ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)

I went downstairs and found him seated in his curule chair in the atrium, with a drawn sword resting across his knees. ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)

Cicero, slumped with exhaustion on his curule chair, swore as he watched him leave. ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)

The lictors led the parade; four of them carried aloft the curule chair on an open litter. ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)

I was taking a shorthand record of the debate, sitting in my usual place, below and to the left of Cicero, who was in his curule chair. ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)

Terentia, decked out in her new jewels, hissed at me that I had better take control of the situation before the house was entirely stripped bare, and so I hit on the ruse of sending two slaves up to the roof to fetch the curule chair, with instructions to tell Cicero that the symbol of his authority was required to lead the procession—an excuse which also had the merit of being true. ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)

When we got back to the house Cicero was still on the roof, seated for the first time on his ivory curule chair. ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)

Hybrida took over the curule chair and Cicero busied himself with his legal work. ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)

Almanac (1676) and we find it alluded to in Boccaccio, the classical sedile which according to scoffers has formed the papal chair (a curule seat) ever since the days of Pope Joan, when it has been held advisable for one of the Cardinals to ascertain that His ❋ Unknown (2006)

Antony sat in his ivory curule chair and stared into the distance, his face almost rapt. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)

A smoother, more persuasive talker than Maecenas no one had yet found, nor a man more suited for scheming and plotting in the shadows behind the curule chair. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)

In the rooms reserved for Antony stood his desk and his ivory curule chair, his best suits of armor, an array of togas and tunics, citrus-wood tables on pedestals of ivory inlaid with gold. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)

Octavian asked from the ivory curule chair in which he had seated himself. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)

Only consuls and praetors definitely used it, though there is debate about curule aediles. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)

He longed more than ever for death as he flung himself back in a curule chair and let his eyes wander across the illusions composing a panorama of the past. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Nonius an “ulcer-spot,” though “sitting in the curule chair.” ❋ Unknown (2007)

As he pronounced these words, the door again opened, and Mr. Bartoline Saddletree entered, his three-pointed hat set far back on his head, with a silk handkerchief beneath it to keep it in that cool position, his gold-headed cane in his hand, and his whole deportment that of a wealthy burgher, who might one day look to have a share in the magistracy, if not actually to hold the curule chair itself. ❋ Unknown (2007)

So few of us, so few! she thought as she tenderly inserted Mark Antony into his ivory curule chair. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)

He drew a breath, surveyed the tiers to either side of the curule dais, upon which he had replaced his ivory chair. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)