CURULE CHAIR, in Roman antiquity, a chair adorned with ivory, wherein the great magistrates of Rome had a right to sit and be carried.
The curule magistrates were the aediles, the prætors, censors, and consuls. This chair was fitted in a kind of chariot, whence it had its name. The senators who had borne the offices of aediles, prætors, &c. were carried to the senate-house in this chair, as were also
Curzola also those who triumphed, and such as went to administer justice, &c. See EDILE, &c.
Curzola, an island in the gulph of Venice, lying on the coast of Dalmatia: it is about 20 miles long, and has a small town of the same name, with a bishop's see. It belongs to the Venetians. E. Long. 17. 15. N. Lat. 43. 6.