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Then came a Flemish company of two hundred men, with its captain and its standard bearer, and divided into two centuries commanded by the troop sergeants, and in decuries commanded by the rot-meesters.

From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Coster, Charles Th?odore Henri de

Thus the hundred senators divide the government among them, ten decuries being formed, and one selected from each decury, who was to have the chief direction of affairs.

From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livius, Titus

I have two decuries of men in your Atrium.

From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2 by Herbert, Henry William

“We are but of yesterday,” cried Tertullian, “and we fill all your cities, islands, forts, councils, even the camps themselves, the tribes, the decuries, the palaces, the senate, and the forum.”

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

Each of these three tribes of citizens consisted of ten curiae, and each curia of ten decuries, or gentes.

From The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by Lord, John