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. From Wordnik.com. [Roman life in the days of Cicero] Reference
The status quo account of zilχ, for instance, is that it's the word for 'praetor' and thus an animate noun. From Wordnik.com. [Ammendments to Etruscan Dictionary Draft 005] Reference
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". From Wordnik.com. [Contradictions with authors' accounts of Etruscan word Rasna] Reference
But Sulla hoped to be elected praetor in a year's time. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Torquatus (who was praetor B.C. 49) and Vinia Aurunculeia. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
We know also of Q. Antonius Balbus, praetor in Sicily in 82. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
If pleased by the song of the singer employed by the praetor. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Volume 07: Marchena Notes] Reference
He does not call himself imperator, nor Hirtius consul, nor Caesar pro-praetor. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference
A man who not only belonged to the Senate, but had been at the least a praetor. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
By special favour he was allowed to take office as praetor on 1st January, A.D. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
Sulla had returned from Nearer Spain in time to be elected urban praetor for 93 B.C. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
He was enabled to do this by the fact that he was praetor and president of the court. From Wordnik.com. [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. 69-44).] Reference
However, he did not keep him under strict surveillance, because the man was a praetor. From Wordnik.com. [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. 69-44).] Reference
“That's right, you were praetor two years ago, so there's no impediment, is there?”. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Cornutus, the city praetor, shall appoint a supplication at all the altars for fifty days. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference
Metellus Pius was eager for his priesthood, although young and not having served as praetor. From Wordnik.com. [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. 69-44).] Reference
As if the praetor should fairly dismiss him from the stage, whom he had taken in to act a while. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
Marius summoned him to his head-quarters, Cirta, whither he also summoned the praetor Bellienus from Utica. From Wordnik.com. [C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino] Reference
At the moment my proquaestor Lucullus is in the chair, but I have sent my praetor Thermus to govern Asia Province. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
In B.C. 46 he was praetor, and as such commanded successfully an expedition to seize the enemy's stores in Cercina. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
He maintained the same tenor of conduct when praetor; for the judiciary part of the office did not fall to his share. From Wordnik.com. [The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus] Reference
Thus, Suetonius informs us that Caesar made his first campaign in Asia as tent-companion to Marcus Thermus the praetor. From Wordnik.com. [The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus] Reference
Some even of the knights, and, -- not to mention others, -- a son of a man who had been praetor fought in single combat. From Wordnik.com. [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. 69-44).] Reference
I have a victim in mind-we will have enough evidence to satisfy the urban praetor that we have a case by the end of Quinctilis. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
For two reasons, though I had expected only one-that he is still a praetor, and ought to wait the customary two years before being consul. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
His father, C. Iulius C.esar, was praetor in B.C. 84, and died in the same year; Aurelia, his mother, took great interest in his education. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
Sulla's law stipulated that it be presided over by an ex-aedile, but in that year it was under the presidency of a praetor, Marcus Fannius. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Rabirius yielded, and would certainly have been convicted before the popular court also, had not Metellus Celer who was an augur and praetor hindered it. From Wordnik.com. [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. 69-44).] Reference
The senators, however, were angry at the praetor who proposed it (Metellus Nepos was the man) and wished to erase his name from the law, entering another one instead. From Wordnik.com. [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. 69-44).] Reference
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