Decurio

vii. 21.DECURIO. An Officer of the Roman troops, who commanded ten men. There were some of these Officers in the Hebrew Ex. xviii. 21, 25. Deut. i. 15.Armies, as may be seen in Moses, who by the advice of Jethro his father-in-law, appointed Captains of a thousand, an hundred, fifty, and ten men, to govern, and judge the people, and to have the conduct 1 Macc. iii. 55.of them both in peace and war. Judas Maccabæus imitating Moses in this disposition of the people, appointed Officers of all sorts in his Army. Joseph of ArimathæaMark xv. 43. is called in the Gospel, Nobilis Decurio: but the Greek Text imports a rich Coun- Εὐσχήμων Βουλευτής. Luk. xxiii. 10. Βουλευτὴς ὑπάρχων.Counsellor or Senator. The Senators of the municipal towns and colonies were called Decuriones; and this probably might oblige the Author of the Vulgate to transflate the Greek Bouleutes, Decurio.

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