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curiam

curiam is a Latin form of curia, meaning “senate house; senate; curia (division of the Roman people)”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 194 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.76: … icere audebit aut poterit? quando autem homo tantae luxuriae atque desidiae nisi Februario mense aspirabit in curiam? verum veniat sane, decernat bellum Cretensibus, liberet Byzantios, regem appellet Ptolomaeum, quae vult Hort …

Suetonius, Divus Julius 88.1: … itumque est animam esse Caesaris in caelum recepti; et hac de causa simulacro eius in uertice additur stella. Curiam, in qua occisus est, obstrui placuit Idusque Martias Parricidium nominari, ac ne umquam eo die senatus ageret …

All forms of curia (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.