The government of the Roman province thus delimited was entrusted to a praetor or propraetor, of whom several are now known, e.
Under both these systems the praetor referred the matter in dispute to an arbiter (judex), but in the later he settled the formula (i.
The praetorlooked reproachfully at the speaker, but she whispered: "Due punishment for a dishonest man.
The praetor did not hesitate to interrupt any speaker, as though he were the host of the entertainment, and many of his remarks were followed by loud applause, or approving laughter.
Balbilla, while the praetor went up to, his wife and told her in a whisper what he had learnt from Mastor.
It is as if a comedian is discharged from the theatre by the same praetor who engaged him.
How," say they, "could you become a praetor or consul?
A man became pontiff as he became praetoror consul.
As praetor in 227, he gained the lasting gratitude of the people of his province (Sicily) by his excellent administration.
Praetor Lucius Cestius; the inscription records its restoration, A.
This catacomb is supposed to have belonged to the descendants of Ostorius, the pro-praetor in Britain who sent Caractacus and his wife prisoners to Claudius.
When the Romans conquered Perses, king of Macedonia, the twin-gods washed themselves at the Lake of Juturna; and when they defeated the Tigurini, the gods were seen to deliver a letter to the praetor in front of their temple.
On the next wall, inscription of Lucius Considius Gallus, praetor for the strangers, etc.
Temple of Concord vowed by thePraetor Lucius Manlius, on occasion of the mutiny of some soldiers in Gaul, A.
It is true indeed that when the philosophers were expelled from Rome,54 I visited him at his house near the city, and ran the greater risk in paying him that civility, as it was more noticeable then, I being praetor at the time.
The praetor was assisted by ten assessors, five of whom were senators, asd the rest knights.
The praetor for civil causes, being alarmed at this order of Nepos, gave us this unexpected holiday in order to take time to consider whether he should follow the example.
But pray was there never a praetor before this man?
Footnote 13: Brutus was thePraetor urbanus this year, and that officer's duty confined him to the city; and he was forbidden by law to be absent more than ten days at a time during his year of office.
Footnote 25: Cnaeus Octavius, the real father of Octavius Caesar, had been praetor and governor of Macedonia, and was intending to stand for the consulship when he died.
When they were asked by the praetor Nepos whom they had instructed to appear for them, they said, "We have the same counsel as before.
For though it is only a strict praetor who would make or revive such a precedent, when once it has been made or revived even the most lenient officials can put it into execution.
When the philosophers were banished from the city I was staying with him in his suburban residence, and the visit was the more talked about and the more dangerous to me, because I was praetor at the time.
But if this were true, then Praeneste would have come under the jurisdiction of the city praetor (praetor urbanus) in Rome, and there would be praefects to look after cases for him.
In the literature, a praetor is mentioned in 319 B.
V, 80: praetor dictus qui praeiret iure et exercitu, thinks that the consuls were not necessarily called praetors at first, but that probably even in the time of the kings the leader of the army was called the prae-itor.
Ostia, and also quattuorvir quinquennalis of Faesulae, a town above Florence, which seems to show that he was sent to Faesulae as a quinquennalis, for the honor which he had held previously was that of praetor in Laurentum.
Praetor to see that "no philosophers or rhetoricians be suffered at Rome" (R.
Roman Senate directed the Praetor to see "that no philosophers or rhetoricians be suffered in Rome" (R.
He ordered the praetor of the city to arrest the Pope and conduct him to prison.
Thereupon the praetor ordered his men to drag the Pope out by main force.
If both the consuls with their armies were at Nola, still they would no more be a match for Hannibal than they had been at Cannae, much less would one praetor with a few raw soldiers be able to defend it.
The legions of the Samnites, though pursued, some by the praetor Appius Claudius, the others by Lucius Volumnius, proconsul, formed a junction in the country of the Stellatians.
One man indeed was found who recommended the law, Caius Terentius Varro, who had been praetor in the former year, sprung not only from humble but mean parentage.
The town of Accua also was taken by storm, during the same period, by the praetor Quintus Fabius, whose province was the neighbourhood of Luceria; he also fortified a stationary camp at Ardonea.
Against these was sent the praetor Appius Claudius, with the army formerly commanded by Decius.
Among them was Valerius, the son of Lucius Flaccus, who as praetor had formerly had the government of Asia, and six military standards were taken.
A rumour had spread that Praeneste was to be seized by its slaves, and it was sufficient to stimulate a praetor to execute nearly five hundred of the supposed delinquents.
We are told that the selection of the first panel was entrusted to the legislator himself;[626] for the future the Foreign Praetor was to draw up the annual list of four hundred and fifty who were qualified to hear cases of extortion.
One day the consul passed the open court of justice when the praetor was giving judgment from the curule chair.
Sulla had been left with the usual title of pro-praetor to represent his absent commander.
The force of eight thousand men which it put into the field under the praetor Lucius Hypsaeus may have seemed more than sufficient.
A certain Numitorius Pullus betrayed the state to the praetor Lucius Opimius, who had been sent with an army from Rome.
For in that battle he so overwhelmed and discomfited the enemy, that on account of it the praetor Nerva was hailed Imperator and my grandfather obtained his cognomen and so was called Scrofa.
Cassius Dionysius of Utica translated Mago into Greek in twenty books (and dedicated his work to thepraetor Sextilius), and notwithstanding that he reduced Mago by eight books he cited freely from the Greek authors whom I have named.
I told the praetor he was my friend, noble and brave, and I begged his body, that I might burn it upon the funeral-pile, and mourn over him.
Justice was administered for them by the Roman praetor or his deputies (-praefecti-) annually sent to the individual communities.
This speech of the praetor was followed by a general murmur; some declaring their approbation, and others vehemently rebuking those who did so.
The praetor Philip spoke first, and requested at once of the king and the Roman general, that they would put an end to the war, and grant this boon to the Epirots.
The praetor of the Achaeans, in respect of skill for conducting operations on land, was equal to any of the most celebrated commanders both in capacity and experience, yet with naval affairs he was quite unacquainted.
Here he was interrupted by Phaeneas, praetor of the Aetolians, who solemnly declared, that "if Philip escaped now, he would soon raise a new and more dangerous war.
The senate breaking up and an assembly of the people being then called, Publius Aelius the praetor accompanied by Caius Laelius, mounted the rostrum.
He had seized on Lysimachia, after dislodging the praetor and garrison of the Aetolians.
About midway, Antiphilus, praetor of the Boeotians, met him: the rest of the people stood on the walls, watching the arrival of the king and the Roman general.
Hereupon a supplication of three days' continuance was decreed, and that the praetor should offer sacrifice to such of the gods as his judgment should direct, with forty victims of the larger kinds.
Why he was going out as propraetor of Asia so long after his term as praetor was a puzzle to me.
A man was generally first quaestor, later praetor and finally consul, often holding other intermediary offices.
For instance, when he ridicules a praetor urbanus for calling himself pretor, we see already the intrusion of the rustic degradation of ae into e, which afterwards became universal.
In the present year he had been proclaimed praetor of the city, with the promise of the consulship.
Decius Brutus, one of his old Gallic officers, was praetor elect, and was to be gratified with the rich province of Cisalpine Gaul.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "praetor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
