As soon as Beric had learned the language, Caius ordered the scribe to teach him the elements of Roman law, and a Decurion was ordered to take him in hand and instruct him in arms.
"Beric the Briton A Story of the Roman Invasion"
G. A. Henty
Nor have they any reverence for the villa of the civic Decurion or the Roman official.
"Callista"
John Henry Cardinal Newman
The adoption of the same faith made the poor freedman the equal and sometimes the superior, of the Decurion and the clarissimus.
"The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism"
Franz Cumont