in antiquity, an officer in the Roman army, who had the command of 2000 men.

The emperors had also ducenarii among their procurators or intendants, called procuratores ducenarii. Some DUCE

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say, that these were such whose salary was two hundred sesterces; as in the games of the circus, horses hired for two hundred sesterces were called *ducenarii*. Others hold, that *ducenarii* were those who levied the two hundredth penny, the officers appointed to inspect the raising of that tribute. In the inscriptions at Palmyra, the word *ducenarius*, in Greek δυσκεναριος, occurs very often.