Vocabulary Word
Word: centurion
Definition: Roman army officer (commanding a company of about 100 soldiers)
Definition: Roman army officer (commanding a company of about 100 soldiers)
Sentences Containing 'centurion'
``Spada knew what these invitations meant; since Christianity, so eminently civilizing, had made progress in Rome, it was no longer a centurion who came from the tyrant with a message,`Caesar wills that you die.'
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