Curule vs Praetor - What's the difference?
curule | praetor |
Designating a kind of elaborate ceremonial seat inlaid with ivory, used by the highest magistrates in ancient Rome.
:* 1985': Followed by his foolish followers Titus Vinius, who had served him in Spain, Cornelius Laco, an arrogant idiot, and the freedman Icelus Marcianus, who was after Laco’s post, he made for the '''curule chair. — Anthony Burgess, ''Kingdom of the Wicked
# (originally) A consul in command of the army.
# ), and eventually eighteen.
(by extension) A high civic or administrative official, especially a chief magistrate or mayor.
The title of the chief magistrate, the mayor, and/or the in Palermo, in Verona, and in various other parts of Italy.