CURIA, in Roman antiquity, was used for the senate house. There were several curie in Rome; as the curia calabra, said to be built by Romulus; the curia hostilia, by Tullus Hostilius; and the curia pompeia, by Pompey the Great.
CURIA also denoted the places where the curia used to assemble. Each of the 30 curie of old Rome had a temple or chapel assigned to them for the common performance of their sacrifices, and other offices of their religion; so that they were not unlike our pa-
rishes. Some remains of these little temples seem to have subsisted many ages after on the Palatine hill, where Romulus first built the city, and afterwards resided.