09-11-2004, 12:56 PM
The curule chair was a camp-style folder, but it was a chair of office used by Roman magistrates when sitting in judgment. It comes from a word meaning "of a chariot," presumably because it's the kind you'd carry along in the carriage when you were traveling. The curule offices were: curule aedile, praetor and consul, at least during the Republic. <p></p><i></i>