Decius

[ dee-shuhs, desh-uhs ]

noun

1. Gaius Messius Quintus Trajanus Decius, a.d. c201–251, emperor of Rome 249–251.

Example Sentences

Decius Brutus from “Julius Caesar”: If Caesar hide himself, shall they not whisper “Lo, Caesar is afraid?”

From Washington Post

“Charge the cockpit or you die,” he wrote, this time under the pseudonym Publius Decius Mus.

From Seattle Times

She is believed to have been a young woman of noble birth who was martyred, after terrible tortures, under the Roman emperor Decius in 251AD.

From Economist

The man behind Decius was later revealed to be Michael Anton, a former speechwriter for George W. Bush who now works in the White House as the National Security Council’s director of strategic communications.

From Salon

Anton contributes an essay—adapted, with softer language, from old essays that he originally published as Decius—on how Trump might reassess the “liberal international order.”

From The New Yorker