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in charge of security, the signifer, who carried the banner, and the cornicen, who transmitted orders by trumpet.

Roman use

Political

In the political context the centuria was the constituent voting unit in the assembly of the centuries (Latin: comitia centuriata), an old form of popular assembly in the Roman Republic, the members of which cast one collective vote.

Its origin seems to be the homonymous

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