CENTURY, in antiquity. The Roman people, when they were assembled for the electing of magistrates, enacting of laws, or deliberating upon any public affair, were always divided into centuries, and voted by centuries, in order that their votes might be the more
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easily collected, whence these assemblies were called comitia centuriata. The Roman cohorts were also divided into centuries. See CENTURION and COHORT.