Curule Chair (sella curulis), the chair of honour of the old Roman kings, and later of consuls, pretors, magistrates, and some of the other higher magistrates of the republic having senatorial rank. It was a folding-stool originally of ivory, then of metal, with curved legs crossing.
Curule Chair
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 625
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