For years this group of centurions, after circling the rooms on meeting nights, criticising the pictures and helping themselves to the punch, had dropped into these same seats by the side of Peter.
"Peter A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero"
F. Hopkinson Smith
A veteran, often of humble birth, who had risen to the first place among the sixty centurions of a legion, was, on his discharge with a good pension, sometimes raised to equestrian rank.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
Macrinus greeted them briefly, and, instead of having the tuba blown as usual and letting them fall into their ranks, he told them to gather close round him, the centurions in front.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers