Curulis, & hoc curûle, pen. prod. Adiect. Curru deriuatum, quod vnico rscribi debet, quòd breuis sit príma: vt Sella curulis. Aliquando subauditur SELLA, vel SEDES. Lucan. Prætor adest, vacuáque loco cessere curules. Sella curulis. Cic.A little cart or drey hauing in it a chayre of estare made of Iuorie, wherein heade officers of Rome were wont to be caried, and to sit in the counsell houses. It is sometime vsed for the office it selfe.Violata curulis. Claud. Curulis ædilitas.Cic. Sacræ curules. Claud.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
cŭrūlis (curr-), e, adj. [currus], of or pertaining to a chariot. I. In gen.: equi,
the four horses provided at the public cost for the games of the circus
, Liv. 24, 18, 10; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 49, 14 Müll.; Cod. Th. 15, 5, 3; 15, 10, 1: ludi, Min. Fel. Oct. 37 fin.: triumphus, i. e. upon a chariot (in opp. to an ovatio, on horseback or on foot), Suet. Aug. 22: Juno curulis, in an ancient form of prayer in Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 17.—II. Esp.: sella curulis, the curule chair, official chair, adopted from the Etruscans, and inlaid with ivory; used by the consuls, praetors, and curule ediles, who hence received their name (v. aedilis, and cf. Gell. 3, 18, 4; Isid. Orig. 20, 11, 11; Dict. of Antiq.), Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 14, 36; Liv. 1, 8, 3; 9, 46, 9 al.; Quint. 6, 3, 25; Suet. Aug. 26; Ov. P. 4, 9, 27; Plin. 37, 6, 21, 81; Flor. 1, 13, 10; Cat. 52, 2 et saep.: sedes, Tac. A. 2, 83; 15, 29 al.; and absol.: cŭrūlis, is, f., Tac. A. 1, 75; id. H. 2, 59; Plin. Pan. 59, 2; Suet. Ner. 13; Luc. 3, 107; Sil. 8, 488; Stat. S. 3, 3, 115; Mart. 11, 98, 18 al.—Poet.: major curulis, i. e.
consulship
, Stat. S. 1, 4, 82.—Hence, B.Meton., pertaining to the honor of a sella curulis, curule: aedilis, L. Pis. ap. Gell. 6, 9, 2; Liv. 7, 1, 6 and 8; Plin. 8, 36, 54, 131 al.; cf. aedilitas, Cic. Har. Resp. 13, 27; Liv. 7, 1, 1; Plin. 8, 7, 7, 19: ebur ( = sella curulis),
consulship
, Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 53; cf. magistratus, Gab. Bass. ap. Gell. 3, 18.— Subst.: cŭrūlis, is, m., = aedilis curulis, Plin. 18, 6, 8, 42; and curules,