praetor

How To Use praetor In A Sentence

• Persons thus co-opted by the Senate were liable to the burden of the praetorship , and likewise those whom the Emperor ennobled, unless special exemption were granted.
• In 72 B.C., Quintus Arrius had served as propraetor and helped Gellius defeat Crixus. The Spartacus War
• Praetor needs more assistance than ever, now that his faculties are slipping away.
• The praetors changed the system of property by allowing a person, who had a thing in bonis, the right to recover before the prescribed term of usucaption had conferred absolute proprietorship. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• (U) Tacitus tells us, that the power of Urgulania was io great, that fhe difdained to ap - pear as a witnefs in a certain caufe before the fenate » fo that a praetor was fent to examine her at her own houfe, though it had been always ufual, even io» ithe Veftal virgins, to attend the forum, and courts of juftice, whenever their evidence was required* to to Taniib of \tk\i. An universal history, from the earliest accounts to the present time
• There is no sufficient proof that the word "praetorium" was ever used to designate the emperors palace, though it is used for the official residence of a Roman governor. Smith's Bible Dictionary
• Ad magiftratus vero minores extraordinarios defignandos, necnon ad exercenda judicia, condendafque leges, vcl a confulibus, vel a praetoribus, vcl deni - que a tribunis plebis indici fueviffe comper - lum eft. Antiqvitatvm romanarvm epitome: ad vsvm seminari neapolit
• Quaestors, praetors, and consuls were often employed after their year of office at Rome as ‘pro-magistrates’ to administer the provinces of the Roman empire.
• Chester also had the usual components of a legionary fortress, including a headquarters building (principia), smart houses for the commander (praetorium) and senior officers, amphitheatre, stone defensive walls and a main baths building (thermae), not to mention a large harbour and a bridge crossing the River Dee. Archive 2009-06-01
• This and his election to a praetorship for 62 established him as a man of power and importance.