Cicero's praetorship by § 147, 'mea quaestio de pecuniis repetundis.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
That was during my praetorship, five years before I was chosen Consul. From Wordnik.com. [De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream] Reference
After 197, candidates for the consulship had to have held the praetorship. From Wordnik.com. [d. Conquest of the Mediterranean] Reference
Sulla made an effort, swung his mind away from a praetorship he knew was going to prove elusive. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
Even the worst demagogue has a pattern, a logic directed toward the praetorship and the consulship. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
So he had campaigned strenuously for the praetorship, and encountered Caecilius Metellus opposition yet again. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
But there was no disturbance during his praetorship, only what misfortune he met with in his own domestic affairs. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
Had not the elder Dolabella proven militarily helpful to Sulla, the younger would never have gained praetorship and province. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
In the mean time, his eldest died in his praetorship; of whom Cato often makes mention in his books, as having been a good man. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
Lucullus remained in the east serving under Thermus, the governor of Asia, but Gaius Scribonius Curio came home to a praetorship. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Cato, although in the praetorship which he soon after held, he would never mention the title of the other's laws, which were called the. 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 only true value praetorship and consulship had for Gaius Marius was the fact that both led to military command of the highest order. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
But not, alas, the wherewithal to climb the rungs of the cursus honorum, the ladder of honor leading up to the praetorship and consulship. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
The first of his family to sit in the Senate, a backbencher who scrambled into a praetorship under the treasonous regime of Cinna and Carbo!. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Verres had gone to Sicily as its governor after his urban praetorship, and-mostly thanks to Spartacus-remained its governor for three years. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
So when I stand for the tribunate of the plebs instead of the praetorship, everyone is going to know that my reasons must be compelling ones. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
So another praetorship was given to Cassius; the gaining of which could not so much oblige him, as he was incensed for the loss of the other. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
To attain the praetorship had been a struggle, and had cost most of what was left of that Pontic gold, for the father had been neither thrifty nor prudent. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
As an ex-praetor, he wore the purple-bordered toga praetexta, and on his dark red senatorial shoes he wore the crescent-shaped buckle his praetorship permitted. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
He had at that time the most honorable praetorship of the year, and was named for the consulship four years after, being preferred before Cassius, his competitor. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
The praetorship of the city was a very high municipal office. From Wordnik.com. [History of Julius Caesar] Reference
The enterprise may have belonged to the praetorship of Laelius. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate] Reference
In 351 they secured the censorship, and in 336 the praetorship. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
"What, to write a few lines!" would his praetorship have cried out. From Wordnik.com. [Friends in Council — First Series] Reference
His praetorship (B.C. 115), and pro-praetorship in Spain (B.C. 114). From Wordnik.com. [A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate] Reference
More poorly-scanned info on the language praetorship in the info packet. From Wordnik.com. [Arbor Update] Reference
He had successfully avoided the appointment after his praetorship and again after his consulship. From Wordnik.com. [Roman life in the days of Cicero] Reference
Sulla said that the people would not give him the praetorship because they wished him to be aedile first. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate] Reference
The author has two brothers (l. 14), and at the opening of the poem cries, 'let others seek the praetorship!'. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference
It was still more important that his tenure of the praetorship had added him to the ranks of the official nobility. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate] Reference
He had carried the praetorship against Cato; and Cicero in one of his speeches had painted him as another Clodius or. From Wordnik.com. [Caesar: a Sketch] Reference
Leaving the province of Spain, after his praetorship, before Pompey's return to Italy, his great career of conquest commenced. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
The year of his praetorship, 66 B.C., is marked by the two orations which are on the whole his greatest, one public and the other private. From Wordnik.com. [Latin Literature] Reference
He escaped death on the discovery of the conspiracy, and was afterward aedile, and candidate for the praetorship, but was driven into exile for bribery. From Wordnik.com. [Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War] Reference
Nibby and Mommsen believe Calvinus to be the magistrate mentioned twice by Cicero as a candidate against Glaucias in the contest for the praetorship of 125 B. C. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan and Christian Rome] Reference
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