At a peak pretor population there are not enough elk left to feed all those predators, predators starve. From Wordnik.com. [On Wolves And The Future Of Hunting] Reference
Britaine, persuaded the emperour Claudius to take the warre in hand at this time against the Britains, so that one Aulus Plautius a senatour, and as then pretor, was appointed to take the armie that soiourned in France then called Gallia, and to passe ouer with the same into. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (3 of 8)] Reference
The pretor favored me by not requiring her presence. From Wordnik.com. [Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero] Reference
Caesar and, though still young when he died, had become a senator and pretor. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the Caesars] Reference
I am resolved not to permit the pretor or the judges to be changed in this cause. From Wordnik.com. [I. The First Oration Against Verres] Reference
The other consul-elect sent for the Sicilians; some came, because Lucius Metellus was pretor in Sicily. From Wordnik.com. [I. The First Oration Against Verres] Reference
He had married a sister of Caesar and, though still young when he died, had become a senator and pretor. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the Caesars]
Romans issued marriage-licenses, but before doing so a pretor passed on the fitness of the candidates for each other. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8] Reference
However, a man could put away his wife at will, and by recording the fact with the nearest pretor, the act was legalized. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8] Reference
Touching the temporal government of Rome, and oppidan affairs, there is a pretor and some choice citizens, which sit in the Capitol. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I] Reference
According to the Lex de adulteriis, he as husband should have made known the crime of his wife to the pretor and have had her punished. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the Caesars]
While this man was pretor the Sicilians enjoyed neither their own laws, nor the decrees of our senate, nor the common rights of every nation. From Wordnik.com. [I. The First Oration Against Verres] Reference
In, he has unproductive a piercingly unidimensional pudginess as a way to thelephoraceae the pretor so he can durer his archipelagic amorist for untrained. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
To-day, in the hour of my delight, I gave rewards to all my slaves; those who have served in the house twenty years I shall take to the pretor to-morrow and free. From Wordnik.com. [Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero] Reference
To meet the issue, and prevent fickle and unjust men from taking advantage of women, Marcus decided that the pretor could refuse to record the desired divorce, if he saw fit, and demand reasons. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8] Reference
But it was doubtful whether that pursuit would reach the fugitives; and even should it reach them, whether the local authorities would feel justified in making the arrest at the private instance of Vinicius, without the support of a pretor. From Wordnik.com. [Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero] Reference
It is certain that either she or some other influential personage succeeded in gaining possession of the proofs of Julia's guilt and brought them to Augustus, threatening to lay them before the pretor and to institute proceedings if he did not discharge his duty. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the Caesars] Reference
This same man while pretor plundered and stripped those most ancient monuments, some erected by wealthy monarchs and intended by them as ornaments for their cities; some, too, the work of our own generals, which they either gave or restored as conquerors to the different states in Sicily. From Wordnik.com. [I. The First Oration Against Verres] Reference
The freedom of the city was given him in accordance with the provisions of the law of Silvanus and Carbo: If any men had been enrolled as citizens of the confederate cities, and if, at the time that the law was passed, they had a residence in Italy, and if within sixty days they had made a return of themselves to the pretor. From Wordnik.com. [V. In Behalf of Archias the Poet] Reference
Nero, however, wished to bring about some reform which would help the masses, and he gave orders in an edict that the rates of all the vectigalia be published; that at Rome the pretor, and in the provinces the propretor and proconsul, should summarily decide all suits against the tax-farmers and that the soldiers should be exempt from these same vectigalia. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the Caesars]
Therefore, with our Gallic legions, and with the levies which Quintus Metellus has raised in the Picenian and Gallic territory, and with these troops which are every day being got ready by us, I thoroughly despise that army composed of desperate old men, of clownish profligates, and uneducated spendthrifts: of those who have preferred to desert their bail rather than that army, and which will fall to pieces if I show them not the battle array of our army, but an edict of the pretor. From Wordnik.com. [IV. The Second Oration Against Catiline] Reference
First of all, this man was pretor in Spain, and finding it secretly hostile did not allow the inhabitants under the protection of the name of peace to develop into foes, nor chose to spend the period of his governorship in quiet rather than to effect what was for the advantage of the nation; hence, since they would not agree to alter their sentiments, he brought them to their senses without their consent, and in doing so so far surpassed the men who had previously won glory against them, as keeping a thing is more difficult than acquiring it, and reducing men to a condition where they can never again become rebellious is more profitable than rendering them subject in the first place, while their power is still undiminished. From Wordnik.com. [His Oration Over the Dead Body of Caesar] Reference
"Those who have served twenty years in my house are to appear tomorrow before the pretor, where they will receive freedom; those who have not served out the time will receive three pieces of gold and double rations for a week. From Wordnik.com. [Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero] Reference
X • Die qiioqne, quo pretor Antistius, ob pro. From Wordnik.com. [C. Cornelii Taciti Opera] Reference
6. pretor. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
Wherefore, O conscript fathers, let the worthless be gone, let them separate themselves from the good, let them collect in one place, let them, as I have often said before, be separated from us by a wall; let them cease to plot against the consul in his own house, to surround the tribunal of the city pretor, to besiege the senate-house with swords, to prepare brands and torches to burn the city; let it, in short, be written on the brow of every citizen, what his sentiments are about the republic. From Wordnik.com. [III. The First Oration Against Catiline] Reference
And when you were not received by him, you dared even to come to me, and begged me to keep you in my house; and when you had received answer from me that I could not possibly be safe in the same house with you, when I considered myself in great danger as long as we were in the same city, you came to Quintus Metellus, the pretor, and being rejected by him, you passed on to your associate, that most excellent man, Marcus Marcellus, who would be, I suppose you thought, most diligent in guarding you, most sagacious in suspecting you, and most bold in punishing you; but how far can we think that man ought to be from bonds and imprisonment who has already judged himself deserving of being given into custody. From Wordnik.com. [III. The First Oration Against Catiline] Reference
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