How To Use Praetor In A Sentence
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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.
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In 72 B.C., Quintus Arrius had served as propraetor and helped Gellius defeat Crixus.
The Spartacus War
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Praetor needs more assistance than ever, now that his faculties are slipping away.
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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
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(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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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This and his election to a praetorship for 62 established him as a man of power and importance.
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A large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble.
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We, however, have followed the Twelve Tables in this department of law, and adhered to their principles: and, while we commend the praetors for their sense of equity, we cannot hold that their remedy was adequate; for when the degree of natural relationship was the same, and when the civil title of agnation was conferred by the older law on males and females alike, why should males be allowed to succeed all their agnates, and women (except sisters) be debarred from succeeding any?
The Institutes of Justinian
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“The praetor did so to allow the public discussion of reunifying Romulan and Vulcan societies,” Sisko explained, “in order to impel the public discussion of uniting the two empires.”
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
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There actually is quite the rounded out selection of units to make as well, ranging from infantry to spearman to archers to legionnaires to praetorians and beyond.
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In fact, the praetors had to ‘bow to the will of the senate’.
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Recall that legal procedures of the chthonic tradition were essentially open ones; there were no barriers such as the praetor of roman law or the chancellor (keeper of the writs) of the common law.
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Cum acerbae famis tempore grauis atque inexplicabilis indicta coemptio profligatura inopia Campaniam prouinciam uideretur, certamen aduersum praefectum praetorii communis commodi ratione suscepi, rege cognoscente contendi et ne coemptio exigeretur, euici.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
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Like the ‘Centuriata ‘it was convened by consuls or praetors and became the main legislative body and elected most of the lower magistrates.’
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He was plebeian aedile 199 and praetor 198, when he may have carried the Porcian law which extended the right of provocatio (appeal to the people against the action of a magistrate) to cases of scourging.
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He became quaestor, aedile and praetor - progressively important posts within the Roman senate.
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The praetor and his council were greatly relieved at not having to call Scipio to account; Pleminius and thirty-two others they found guilty and sent them in chains to Rome.
The History of Rome, Vol. IV
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7 Again, the Servian and quasi-Servian actions, the latter of which is also called 'hypothecary,' are derived merely from the praetor's jurisdiction.
The Institutes of Justinian
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I was so worn out with all their stopping and detaining me, it got to be frightfully hard work emerging from the flood of felicitations. tandem abii ad praetorem; ibi vix requievi: rogo syngraphum, datur mi ilico; dedi Tyndaro: ille abiit domum. inde ilico praevortor domum, postquam id actum est; eo protinus ad fratrem, mei ubi sunt alii captivi.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
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Eventually the Visigoths, after a brief period of fighting for the Romans in Spain, were established in south-west Gaul in 418 by the praetorian prefect.
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In the latter two cases, soldiers and officers are isolated from society and can represent a praetorian challenge to legitimate rule.
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He punished the delators; reduced the privileges of the praetorians, and reformed the law courts.
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The commanders tent, known as the praetorium, served both as his living quarters and the armys headquarters.
The Spartacus War
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There were two brothers who come to this country, Johannes, and Praetorius, and from all I can get,
Oral History Interview with Howard Kester, July 22, 1974. Interview B-0007-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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On June 18, 34 singers and players from 22 different schools will come together as the EMA Festival Ensemble for a concert of Gabrieli and Praetorius.
Second-Class Repertoire No More
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Cassiodorus, the Praetorian praefect, is addressed to the maritime tribunes; and he exhorts them, in a mild tone of authority, to animate the zeal of their countrymen for the public service, which required their assistance to transport the magazines of wine and oil from the province of Istria to the royal city of Ravenna.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The provinces were grouped into larger administrative units called a diocese, ruled by a governor general who answered to a praetorian prefect, who in turn answered to one of the tetrarchs.
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So at dawn on New Year's Day the Senate formally appointed Lucius Valerius Flaccus Princeps Senatus the first interrex and those men who intended to stand for election as consuls and praetors went into a flurry of hasty canvassing.
Fortune's Favorites
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Although Vindex was defeated, Nero's suicide and the support of Gaius Nymphidius Sabinus and the praetorians encouraged Galba to march on Rome, accompanied by Otho, governor of Lusitania.
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Legitimating soldiers’ lobbies is likely to warp national-security policy and crack open the door to praetorianism.
Warrior Politics
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This praetor was no doubt propraetor of the province of Africa, sent thither from Rome to undertake the regular administration, but he was at the same time placed at the disposal of the consul Marius; for as a propraetor had the _jus praetorem_ in his province, he was sometimes simply called praetor; thus Verres is often called praetor of Sicily.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
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10 The action claiming an account of a peculium is a remedy introduced by the praetor against a master or a father.
The Institutes of Justinian
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Now perhaps zil simply means something to the effect of "to put in power" however the above inscription does not indicate a noun meaning "praetor".
Contradictions with authors' accounts of Etruscan word Rasna
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A large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble.
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As praetor 148, he was sent to Macedonia, probably with proconsular status, and remained until 146, defeating Andriscus and perhaps another pretender.
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Once again, elections were held for aedile, praetor, quaestor and the other traditional offices of the Republic.
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Sometimes the birds had prevented elections, refusing to allow the offices to belong to interreges; above all the tribunes, by managing affairs in the city so that they instead of the praetors conducted games, hindered the remaining offices from being filled.
Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C.
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At Rome a basilica was provided for the Pope where the barracks of the mounted branch of the praetorians had stood, and other churches, most notably St Peter's, followed.
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There the insurgents had yet another encounter with a Roman army, possibly under the propraetor Manlius.
The Spartacus War
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a large Praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious...and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble
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When Caesar was a praetor, he supported a tribune who wanted Pompey recalled to restore order in Rome.
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praetorial powers
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The aediles and triumviri capitales, responsible for the order of the city, could do nothing; the Senate had to commission the praetor urbanus to rid the people of these _religiones_.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
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He trod hard on the foot of a floor, Richard Pendlebury, with a praetorian guard of Martians, hand in Bowscar.
THE SCAR
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The eleven guardsmen who lined the seat astern, fading like so many ghosts into its pointille upholstery, owed their near invisibility to the catoptric armor of my own Praetorians; and I soon realized they were my own Praetorians in fact, their armor, and what was more important, their traditions having been handed down from this unimaginably early day to my own.
The Urth of the New Sun
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In February 1996 the church hosted an organ recital of composers known to Bach: Brunckhorst, Praetorius, Buxtehude, Pachelbel, C.
American Connections
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Second, that which the praetor promises to all duly instituted heirs, and which is for that reason called secundum tabulas.
The Institutes of Justinian
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The massive collection of French court dances that Michael Praetorius collected and arranged for his volume entitled Terpsichore in 1612 was just one in the extraordinary series of publications he issued within only 15 years ...
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The Nov. 7 program by Peter Phillips and Tallis Scholars alternated between sacred music of the Renaissance (Palestrina, Byrd, Tallis, Praetorius and Allegri) and of today (Arvo P ä rt).
The White Light Spectrum
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On June 18, 34 singers and players from 22 different schools will come together as the EMA Festival Ensemble for a concert of Gabrieli and Praetorius.
Second-Class Repertoire No More
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This hard rule again the praetors did not leave entirely without correction, though their remedy, which consisted in the admission of such persons, since they were excluded from the rights of agnation, in the rank of cognates, was inadequate.
The Institutes of Justinian
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The word praetorium is so translated five times in the
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Diocletian towards his friends.] 94 Truncatae vires urbis, imminuto praetoriarum cohortium atque in armis vulgi numero.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The Praetorian Guard, who despised their unmilitary emperor, defected to Galba on the promise of a donative, and the senate declared Nero a public enemy.
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BTW “noahp” is an abbreviation for my fictional doctor hero, Dr. Noah Praetorius played by Cary Grant in “People Will Talk”.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Just Wondering
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Little is known about him except that he was curule aedile c.67, praetor c.64, and later a pro praetor.
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The latter had once commanded the praetorians and had been rewarded with the decorations of the consulate.
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Cicero, who was praetor that year (the praetor was the magistrate next in rank to the consul), defended Cluentius, and told his client's whole story.
Roman life in the days of Cicero
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Pauci autem, quos medios [349] cohors praetoria disjecerat, paulo diversius, sed omnes tamen adversis vulneribus [350] conciderant.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
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Ambitious Romans aimed for the consulship soon after their term as praetor.
The Spartacus War
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Here the Toronto Consort ensemble and guests position themselves and their instruments around a church and in the balconies for an encircled performance of carols, German love songs and Michael Praetorius's four-choired
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Quintus was coming to the end of his term as praetor and was heavily in debt and apprehensive about what province he might draw in the forthcoming lottery.
CONSPIRATA
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Being examined concerning this bloudy fact, he plainly confessed, that hee himselfe had committed the murder, and afterward would not depart from the Cave, but purposely stayed for apprehension, as being truely toucht with compunction for so foule an offence: upon which eremptorie confession, Marcus Varro being then Praetor, gave sentence that he should be crucified on a
The Decameron
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The Praetorian praefect, the praefect of Rome, the quaestor, the master of the offices, with the public and patrimonial treasurers, * whose functions are painted in gaudy colors by the rhetoric of Cassiodorus, still continued to act as the ministers of state.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Doctor Praetorius at least, walked into the studio, where the perfumer was seated in a very glossy old silk dressing-gown, his fair hair hanging over his white face, his double chin over his flaccid whity-brown shirt-collar, his pea-green slippers on the hob, and on the fire the pot of chocolate which was simmering for his breakfast.
Mens Wives
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If "praetorium" means the imperial guard, some time would have to elapse before such a large body of men could know much about
The Books of the New Testament
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The fasces were the insignia of a Roman praetor, consul, general, or governor.
The Spartacus War
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Brutus, when the latter was praetor, Brutus being then 43 years of age: -- "sic Marco Bruto usus est, ut nullo ille adolescens aequali familiarius" (Att. 8); to this passage of Nepos's, Nicholas
Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century
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159 The counts of the domestics had succeeded to the office of the Praetorian praefects; like the praefects, they aspired from the service of the palace to the command of armies.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Her hair had grayed considerably since she had seized the praetorship, but it suited her, her quiet maturity lending her an air of confidence and authority.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
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It is plausible that he was assisted by the propraetor Cnaeus Manlius.
The Spartacus War
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The hasty retreat of Constantius might be justified by weighty reasons; but he resigned, without a struggle, the possession of Gaul; and Dardanus, the Praetorian praefect, is recorded as the only magistrate who refused to yield obedience to the usurper.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Praetorius was the stronger of the two brothers who came.
Oral History Interview with Howard Kester, July 22, 1974. Interview B-0007-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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The head of the civil administration as far as Britain was concerned was the praetorian prefect of the Gauls, based in Trier, to whom the vicarius of the British diocese was responsible.
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At about the same moment, the consuls Gellius and Clodianus left Rome to pick up their troops from Capua, Quintus Arrius the ex-praetor having told the Senate that the four legions of new soldiers assembled in Capua were as good as they were ever going to be; he could not guarantee that they were battleworthy, but he hoped they were.
Fortune's Favorites
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CELER, QUINTUS CAECILIUS METELLUS brother-in-law of Pompey who married his sister, husband of Clodia, brother of Nepos; member of the College of Augurs; praetor; head of the most extensive and powerful family in Rome; a war hero with a powerful military reputation
CONSPIRATA
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Nor does anyone love Caesar himself unless in some way Caesar is a person of great merit; but we love wealth, a tribuneship, a praetorship, a consulship.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership
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This was the main purpose of Rome's magistrates for most of her history, and even when they had become mostly civilian magistrates, as propraetors and proconsuls they still went out to govern provinces and wage wars.
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[166] The praetor -- The _praetor urbanus_, or city praetor, who decided all causes between citizens, and passed sentence on debtors.
Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War
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Thus twelve praetorships and six aedileships were created.
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The angélique flourished in the second half of the seventeenth century and the first part of the eighteenth, although Praetorius mentions a plucked-string instrument with a neck, also tuned in diatonic seconds in 1612.
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But when the cicerone proceeded to point out a small hillock near the centre of the enclosure as the Praetorium, Corydon's patience could hold no longer, and, like Edie Ochiltree, he forgot all reverence, and broke in with nearly the same words -- "Praetorium here, Praetorium there, I made the bourock mysell with a flaughter-spade.
The Antiquary — Volume 02
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Direct bribery was also common, and represented a massive outlay - in the late 60s, Caesar had accumulated debts of several thousand talents due to his aedileship, his praetorian campaign, and his pontifical campaign.
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A herdsman, tough and uneducated, he rose high in the army and became praetorian prefect of Diocletian, to whom his loyalty was unswerving.
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Though you are one century short from a cohort, you will be known as the storm cohort, as elite as the praetorians in status.
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Once again, elections were held for aedile, praetor, quaestor and the other traditional offices of the Republic.
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Eventually the Visigoths, after a brief period of fighting for the Romans in Spain, were established in south-west Gaul in 418 by the praetorian prefect.
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I will hear thee -- The word means, "give thee a full hearing." to be kept in Herod's judgment hall -- "praetorium," the palace built at
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The outer provinces and those prone to turbulence were governed not by ex - consuls and ex-praetors acting in the name of the Senate, but each by a deputy of the Emperor, styled propraetor, praeses, or procurator.
Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire
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He trod hard on the foot of a floor, Richard Pendlebury, with a praetorian guard of Martians, hand in Bowscar.
THE SCAR
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The provinces were grouped into larger administrative units called a diocese, ruled by a governor general who answered to a praetorian prefect, who in turn answered to one of the tetrarchs.
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I think that quite a few people might prefer to drive to work while listening to Couperin or Praetorius or Grainger or Lou Harrison than Howard Stern or Aerosmith (bear in mind, I have myself seen Aerosmith in concert -- Stern I can do without).
Work in progress ...
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The men were togate, Mamercus with the purple border he could now wear thanks to his position as praetor peregrinus, and the Cottae, too young yet for purple-bordered togas, in plain white.
Fortune's Favorites
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He had been slated to take over the governorship of Sicily in 72 B.C. but the Spartacus War got in the way, and Arrius was reassigned to Gelliuss staff, with the rank of propraetor.
The Spartacus War
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When Caesar was a praetor, he supported a tribune who wanted Pompey recalled to restore order in Rome.
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Titus and Domitian were not close (they were separated in age by 21 years) and so while Titus was dying, Domitian left for the praetorian camp where he was hailed as emperor.
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However, as I said, a stem zil forms the basis of many verbal derivatives zili, zilχ, zilχnce, zilace, etc., so I suspect that zilaθ wasn't intended as a noun specifically meaning "praetor" as usually claimed.
Contradictions with authors' accounts of Etruscan word Rasna
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As propraetor in 72 B.C., Arrius served on the staff of the consul Gellius.
The Spartacus War
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KING Darius made a great supper to al his domestical seruantes, and to al the magistrates of Media and Persia, 2 and to al that were purple, and to the praetors, and counsuls, and liuetenantes vnder him from India vnto
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
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Tales of Titus' violence as a praetorian prefect and his sexual debauchery preceded his office.
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praetorium," which in (John 18: 28) is in Authorized Version
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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The Greek word πραιτωριον or praetorion is a Greek transliteration of the Roman word praetorium, the headquarters of any garrison or, more specifically, the Praetorian or Palace Guard of the Emperor.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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I conjectured that it had inside of it the ransomable propraetor.
Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire
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The head of the civil administration as far as Britain was concerned was the praetorian prefect of the Gauls, based in Trier, to whom the vicarius of the British diocese was responsible.
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Other traits may have been suggested by John Clerk of Eldin, whose grandfather was the hero of the story "Praetorian here, Praetorian there, I made it wi 'a flaughter spade.
The Antiquary — Complete
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To all the trolls:Take small bites and masticate that crow thoroughly, and ask praetorian to pass the salt.
Ed Driscoll » Polls Are Closed — “GOP’s Brown Wins In Epic Upset”
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He was fairly sure of the support of the praetorian guard, whose praefect he was, and had counted on the adherence of these malcontents, who he hoped would look to him for future favours whilst raising him to supreme dignity.
"Unto Caesar"
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He replaced the existing praetorian guard with sixteen cohorts recruited from his German legions.
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Sallustium Crispum praetorem ad Cercinam insulam versus, quam adversarii tenebant, cum parte navium ire iubet. '
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
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He trod hard on the foot of a floor, Richard Pendlebury, with a praetorian guard of Martians, hand in Bowscar.
THE SCAR
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Once again, elections were held for aedile, praetor, quaestor and the other traditional offices of the Republic.
