This corps consisted of seven cohorts, one for every two regions, and was under the command of an equestrian prefect of the watch (praefectus vigilum).
Here Π omitted accepto ut praefectus aerari,--evidently a line of the manuscript that he was copying, for there are no similar endings to account otherwise for the omission.
Under Augustus the office lost much of its importance, its juridical functions and the care of the games being transferred to the praetor, while its city responsibilities were limited by the appointment of a praefectus urbi.
They were under the jurisdiction of the Praetor Urbanus, but vicarious justice was administered among them by an official called Praefectus juri dicundo, sent yearly from Rome.
A Roman colony, or Municipium, in which a Roman Praefectus administered justice.
If the result was indecisive for all or a part of the offices, the city council chose an extraordinary official who bore the title of prefect with judiciary authority, praefectus iuri dicundo.
Tiberius granted Praeneste the favor she asked, that of being a municipium, still no praefectus is found, not even a survival of the title.
He was soon, however, recalled to Rome by Trajan, and appointed to the offices of decemvir stlitibus judicandis, praefectus feriarum Latinarum, and sevir turmae equitum Romanorum.
Trajan's scheme for the "alimentation" of poor children was carried out upon a larger scale under the superintendence of a special official called praefectus alimentorum.
There is not yet an end to all the mystery and confusion hanging around this Praefectus Praetorio.
In the households of the Frankish kings of the Merovingian line, the major domus, who was also variously known as the gubernator, rector, moderator or praefectus palatii, was so great an officer that he ended by evicting his master.
This is the praefectus praesidiorum et montis Beronices (C.
That they were appointed for the whole land, and were subordinate to the praefectus Aegypti, is stated by Strabo expressly (xvii.
The technical designation gens comes into prominence particularly in the fixed title of the praefectus gentis Musulamiorum, etc.
He was the chief adviser of Alexander Severus, and like Paulus was praefectus praetorio.
Lydus appears to assign a reason for the fact that the Praefectus Urbis Constantinopolitanae, the Magister Militum, and the Magister Officiorum had no Cura Epistolarum on their staff; but the paragraph is to me hopelessly obscure.
Faustus, Praefectus Praetorio (in the edition of Nivellius his title is given as Praepositus), i.
It is to be borne in mind that the Praefectus Urbis was the Official President of the Senate.
Turranius, praefectus annonae at the time of Augustus' death (Tac Ann I 7) and of Munzer (Beitr.
Thrace, assigned in fief to the native princes, in place of one of whom must have come the praefectus civitatium Moesiae et Triballiae (C.
After the time of the Decemvirs the name of the office was changed to praefect of the city (praefectus urbi), its powers were enlarged, and it was made elective by the new comitia centuriata.
It was Marcius, the barber; by virtue of imperial favour, Praefectus Praetorio.
You will be Praefectus Praetorio in Marcius's place, and distribute four thousand talents among this valiant band, whose sole duty consists in guarding our person.
In the year 416, Rutilius Claudius Namatianus, a Gaul who had risen to the position of praefectus urbi at Rome, was obliged to return to Gaul to attend to his property, which had been laid waste by the Goths.
Clarus is addressed aspraefectus praetorio, an office which he held only during those years.
Under Hadrian the edicts of the praetors and other magistrates were collected and codified by Salvius Julianus, a distinguished jurist of African birth, who attained the position of praefectus urbi and was twice consul.
They contain the decrees of Theodoric and his successors Amalasuntha, Theodahad and Witigis; the regulations of the chief offices of state; the edicts published by Cassiodorus himself when praefectus praetorio.
Under Athalaric he was praefectus praetorio, a post which he retained till about 540, after the triumphal entry of Belisarius into Ravenna, when he retired from public life.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "praefectus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
