curia

cūria ae, f

SCV-, a court, curia, association (each of the three patrician tribes contained ten curiae), L.— A house for the religious services of a curia : prisca, O.— A senate-house, place of meeting of the senate (usu. the Curia Hostilia built by Tullus Hostilius), L.: (curiam) incendere, C., S., V., O.: Pompeia, built by Pompey : Syracusis: Troiae, O.: Saliorum, the official building of the Salii on the Palatine Hill .—Fig., the senate : summum auxilium omnium gentium: alqm in curiam introducere, L.: Martis, i. e. the Areopagus , Iu.— As emblem of law: stante urbe et curiā: pro curia inversique mores! H.