After serving in the war with the Marsi as praetorian legate, he was elected consul in 87 B.
Of the men of consular and praetorian dignity that were taken after the fight, several Caesar put to death, others anticipated him by killing themselves.
But Titus Vinius, captain of his praetorian guard, spoke thus: "Galba, what means this inquiry?
The counts of the domestics had succeeded to the office of the Praetorian praefects; like the praefects, they aspired from the service of the palace to the command of armies.
After the Praetorian praefects had been dismissed from all military command, the civil functions which they were ordained to exercise over so many subject nations, were adequate to the ambition and abilities of the most consummate ministers.
Their patience was at length exhausted; and Treves, the seat of Praetorian government, gave the signal of revolt, by shutting her gates against Decentius, who had been raised by his brother to the rank either of Caesar or of Augustus.
The proconsul transmitted him to the Praetorian praefect of Italy; and Felix, who disdained even to give an evasive answer, was at length beheaded at Venusia, in Lucania, a place on which the birth of Horace has conferred fame.
Footnote 101: When Justinian, in the exhausted condition of the empire, instituted a Praetorian praefect for Africa, he allowed him a salary of one hundred pounds of gold.
He was distinguished by his eloquence, while he pleaded as an advocate in the court of the Praetorian praefect.
This solemn engagement, which seemed to be dictated by affection rather than by duty, was singly opposed by Nebridius, who had been admitted to the office of Praetorian praefect.
Wren thought that the Praetorian camp had been here in Roman days.
He was a senator, and had filled various civil and military posts before he was appointed prefect of the praetorian guards by the emperor Probus, after whose murder at Sirmium he was proclaimed emperor by the soldiers.
The law by which carriers, both by land and sea, are made responsible for the goods entrusted to them, is founded on the praetorian edict of the civil law, to which the ninth title of the fourth book of the Pandect is devoted.
His horse took fright at the smell of a dead body which had been thrown into the road; in the confusion his disguise fell off, and a praetorian soldier recognised and saluted him.
At the expiration of his praetorian year he had the option of a province, which was a means of acquiring wealth eagerly coveted by the ambitious; but Cicero felt the necessity of remaining at Rome too strongly to be tempted by such a bribe.
To two great factions he thus made himself especially obnoxious--to the praetorian cohorts, and to the courtiers under the last reign.
He conceived himself to have been ill rewarded; and, immediately resorting to the same weapons which he had used against Commodus, he stimulated the praetorian guards to murder the emperor.
For the sake of security, the office of praetorian prefect had been divided between two commissioners, one for military affairs, the other for civil.
And then there came a swirl in the crowd before him, a little space was cleared, and there knelt an officer in the Praetorian garb, blood upon his face, blood upon his bared forearm, blood upon his naked sword.
That same night Severus Alexander, the young Syrian Emperor, walked outside his Praetorian camp, accompanied by his friend Licinius Probus, the Captain of the Guard.
In the darkness the Praetorianofficer looked with strange eyes at his master.
This was the case of the Praetorian bands, who deposed and murdered the monsters they had raised to oppress mankind.
Indeed, an audacious young praetorian had put out his hand to pull away her veil, but an older officer stopped him.
The mob repelled the praetorian guard, but the execution of the hated minister Cleander quieted the tumult.
That of his favourite Perennis, praefect of the praetorian guard, was discovered in time.
One side bears the name of Ti(berius) Claudius Priscus, the other records that he belonged to the fourth praetorian cohort and the centuria Paterni.
Tullius, a veteran of the fifth praetorian cohort of Philip at Aelia Mursa in Pannonia.
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