A complete dictionary of the Greek and Roman antiquities explaining the obscure places in classic authors and ancient historians relating to the religion, mythology, history, geography and chronology of the ancient Greeks and Romans, their ... rites and customs, laws, polity, arts and engines of war : also an account of their navigations, arts and sciences and the inventors of them : with the lives and opinions of their philosophers / compiled originally in French ... by Monsieur Danet ; made English, with the addition of very useful mapps.

CURIA.

A place, says Festus, where those who were intrusted with the care of publick affairs met; but Curia among the Ro∣mans signified rather the persons who met in Council, than the meeting place; for there was no certain place appointed for the Assem∣blies, the Senate meeting sometimes in one Temple, and sometimes in another. Yet there was certain places called Curia, as Cu∣ria Hostilia, Curia Calabra, Curia Saliorum, Cu∣ria Pompeii, Curia Augusti; but Antiquity has left us no account of those Edifices.

There were two kinds of these places or Courts, some wherein the Pontiffs met a∣bout the affairs of Religion, and were called by a general word, Curiae Veteres; there were four of these, viz. Foriensis, Ravia, Vellensis, and Velitia, which were in the tenth Ward of the City of Rome, and the other, wherein the Senate assembled about State Affairs. We have this division from Varro, in the fourth Book, de Lingua Latina: Curiae duorum gene∣ra; & ubi Sacerdotes res divinas curarent, ut Curiae veteres; & ubi Senatus humanas, ut Curia Hostilia.