Place Of Honor
{{Short pages monitor See also *Curule seat Honor Honour ( Commonwealth English) or honor (American English; see spelling differences) is a quality of a person that is of both social teaching and personal ethos, that manifests itself as a code of conduct, and has various elements such as val ...

Curule Seat
A curule seat is a design of a (usually) foldable and transportable chair noted for its uses in Ancient Rome and Europe through to the 20th century. Its status in early Rome as a symbol of political or military power carried over to other civilizations, as it was also used in this capacity by kings in Europe, Napoleon, and others. History Ancient Rome In the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, the curule chair (''sella curulis'', supposedly from ''currus'', "chariot") was the seat upon which magistrates holding ''imperium'' were entitled to sit. This includes Roman Dictator, dictators, ''Magister equitum, magistri equitum'', Roman consul, consuls, praetors, ''curule aediles'', and the promagistrates, temporary or ''de facto'' holders of such offices. Additionally, the Roman censor, censors and the flamen of Jupiter (god), Jupiter (Flamen Dialis) were also allowed to sit on a curule seat, though these positions did not hold ''imperium''. Titus Livius, Livy writes that the thr ...
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