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Quamvis se Tyrio superbus Ostro Comeret & niveis Lapillis, &c.
Curule.] This, as was said before, was the Chair made of Ivory, and carved, in which the Chief Magistrates were carried to the Senate-house.
Cuilibet his fasces dabit: eripietque Curule, Cui volet importunus Ebur, frater, pater, adde. Hor. l. 1. Ep. 6.
Sigua quoque in sellâ nôssem formata Curuli Et totum Numidae sculptile dentis opus. Ovid. l. 4. de Pont. Ec. 9.
Praetor adest vacuoque loco cessere Curules. Lucan. lib. 3.Nero did confer this and other Ensigns of Dignity upon those Sena∣tors whom he favoured most: and because they were disposed ra∣ther at the Will of the Emperor than upon the Consideration of Desert in those who possessed them, they are stiled by our Au∣thor indecoros Curules.