Curūlis magi stratus

, a state officer at Rome, who had the privilege of sitting in an ivory chair in public a emblies. The dictator, the consuls, the censors, the pretors, and ediles, claimed that privilege, and therefore were called curules magi stratus . The senators who had pa ed through the above-mentioned offices, were generally carried to the senate-house in ivory chairs, as also all generals in their triumphant proce ion to the Capitol. When names of distinction began to be known among the Romans, the descendants of curule magistrates were called nobiles , the first of a family who discharged that office were known by the name of notii , and those that had never been in office were called ignobiles .