century

1. (in ancient Rome) a unit of foot soldiers, originally 100 strong, later consisting of 60 to 80 men

2. (in ancient Rome) a division of the people for purposes of voting

Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Century

in ancient Rome, a military and political division of the citizenry. According to classical tradition, the Roman cavalry was divided into centuries in the regal period (eighth-sixth centuries B.C.). The reform by which the century became a general military and electoral unit is attributed to King Servius Tullius (sixth century B.C.). It divided all citizens into five property classifications; each classification supplied a fixed number of centuries and received a corresponding number of votes in the comitia centuriata (Centuriate Assembly). The initial total of 193 centuries was increased to 373 between the First and Second Punic wars. The century retained its importance as a military subdivision under the empire, when it was part of a cohort in a legion.

Mentioned in

References in periodicals archive

"With fast-track construction, there is no luxury of a learning curve," says Raymond Gindi, chief operating officer, Century 21 Department Stores.

134,000 s/f retail renovation is plain sale-ing for BR Fries

And while a woman, determined to test, develop, and ply her craft, can rent a studio and hire some dancers as easily as a man, how many women choreographers in modern dance have really hit the international big time over the past half century? Twyla Tharp, Pina Bausch, Trisha Brown certainly, perhaps Sasha Waltz, and Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker; the list is neither enormous nor even indisputable.

Attitudes

From the mid- to late-18th century, and into the 19th century, a tremendous shift in normal touch (articulation) took place.

Rediscovering classical keyboard style

From the origin of this convention and through the nineteenth century, the overseas work of Baptists grew slowly but steadily.

The shifting landscape in Baptist missions during the twentieth century: dozens of excellent books and hundreds of articles have been written in the past ten years on the changes that occurred in Baptist foreign missions work during the twentieth century

To learn a lesson from this story that has real value for 21st century metalcasting industry managers, each of us merely needs to replace Twain's concept of an individual's wages with the metalcasting equivalent of top-line revenues, and likewise substitute the concept of an individual's purchasing power with that of business profit.

The wisdom of Mark Twain

In the mid-eighteenth century, workhouses provided relief to the middle aged and even to children.

Susannah R. Ottaway, The Decline of Life: Old Age in Eighteenth-Century England

4th century: Massive, sustained lay refusal to accept the Arian heresy (despite its endorsement by the vast majority of the hierarchy) compelled the bishops to affirm the full divinity of Christ at the Council of Constantinople.

A church I'd vote for: a survey of church history reveals a Catholic community that's not only one, holy, and apostolic, but participative, too

Students may chart the transformation of numberless rakes, villains, virtuous wives, and ladies' maids over the course of the century, and they also can monitor the effects of intentional shifts in the organization of narratives.

Digesting the eighteenth-century novel

Until the late second century B.C., Rome had never seen bloodshed from civil unrest.

Lessons of Rome: the rise and fall of the Roman Republic provides lessons that hint at flaws in modern political policies

For example, Penelope Johnstone who translated the fourteenth century text of Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, al-Tib al-Nabawi (Medicine of the Prophet, 1998) has a doctorate in the history of Arabic medicine and teaches Arabic at Oxford University.

Reclaiming the Islamic Intellectual Tradition: Islamic Texts Society and its Publications

JACK RICHARDS 1 century, 133 v Australia at Perth, 1986-87

Cricket: IT IS UNUSUAL

Customers have applauded the software, customization and technical support provided by 21st Century Programming because of its scrap industry-based frame of reference.

A new kind of software company