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Decius

a Roman statuary, by whom there was an admired colossal head in the Capitol. He perhaps lived in the first century B. C., but his date is very doubtful. [CHARES.]

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.