Yet we live and Rome is standing, the praetors preside in court, the aediles make preparations for the games, the conservatives are booking their profits, and I sit still!
But have there been nopraetors before Nepos, and who is Nepos that he should mend our public morals?
You will say, "Oh, but all praetors are not so strict.
The Senate declared also that, for the province of Cilicia and the eight other praetorian provinces, the governors should be chosen by lot among the praetors who had not yet had a government.
The consuls and proconsuls had twelve lictors, the praetors six, the dictators twenty-four, and the master of the cavalry a number which varied.
The praetors were usually sixteen or eighteen, (Lipsius in Excurs.
Afterwards sixpraetors were appointed; and in the time of Antonius they judged not only civil but criminal cases, except those concerning the life of a citizen or the welfare of the state, which the people reserved for themselves.
Praetors also generally presided over capital trials, of which the proper jurisdiction lay with the comitia.
The praetors at an early date handed over their authority to other judges, chosen either from the citizens at large, or from the body of Judices Selecti, who were renewed every year.
Any number of beatings and insults took place in this connection and the evil spread to the theatres, so that those who worked as dancers and who had charge of the horses paid no attention either to praetors or to consuls.
The horsebreeders and charioteers, elated at this enthusiasm of his, proceeded to abuse unjustifiably even the praetors and consuls.
In the morning the praetorssent their lictors with the order, "Release those men.
So the jailer brought Paul word, saying, "The praetors have sent orders for you to be released.
Owing to broils between the supporters of the candidates, no consuls orpraetors could be elected for 52 B.
At the head of the state were two annually elected magistrates, or presidents, called at first praetors but later consuls.
The Senate assigned to the consuls and praetors their spheres of duty, appointed pro-magistrates and allotted them their commands, and no contracts let by the censors were valid unless approved by the Senate.
They defeated the armies of two Roman praetorsand overran Campania, Lucania, and all southern Italy.
The number of quaestors was increased to twenty, that of the praetors raised from six to eight.
A new field for the activity of the praetors arose from the establishment of special jury courts for the trial of cases of bribery, treason, fraud, peculation, assassination and assault with violence.
And in fact special magistrates were assigned to them, two additional praetors being annually elected for this purpose.
When he had ended this speech, he was followed to his house by a greater number of people than were all the new praetors elect put together.
He threatened to impose a severe fine upon those of the praetors who presumed to disobey his commands, insomuch that all the officers, for fear of this penalty, intermitted the exercise of their several jurisdictions.
Thither they sent Aemilius, in the quality of praetor, not with six axes, which number other praetors were accustomed to have carried before them, but with twelve; so that in his praetorship he was honored with the dignity of a consul.
He, thereupon, with the rest of his confederates present, was committed to the charge of the praetorsin free custody.
Cicero, as previously agreed upon, posted two Praetors with an armed force at the Mulvian Bridge, on the Via Flaminia, a few miles to the north of Rome.
The business of the praetors during their year of office was mainly judicial.
By my orders, two of the praetors last night arrested the delegates with Volturcius, the agent of Lentulus, at the Mulvian Bridge, seized their letters and brought them to me.
Though he abolished none of the old republican forms, the Senate became simply his advisory council, the assemblies, his submissive agents the consuls, praetors and tribunes, his pliant tools.
The disputes which arose between citizens and subjects were decided by the praetors or provincial governors in accordance with what seemed to them to be principles of justice and equity.
The Consuls and Praetors were to remain at Rome during their first year of office, and then go to the provinces as Proconsuls and Propraetors.
The number of Praetors was increased from six to eight; that of Quaestors, from twelve to twenty.
They were joined by large numbers of slaves and outcasts of every description, and were soon in a position to defeat two Praetors who were sent against them.
For this purpose two new Praetors were now elected, making four in all.
Though the judges and praetors were not absolutely obliged, till the time of the emperors, to follow the recorded opinions of the Jurisconsults, they possessed during the existence of the republic a preponderating weight and authority.
The former tried the causes of citizens according to the Roman laws; the latter judged the cases of allies and strangers by the principles of natural equity; but as judicial business multiplied, the number of Praetors was increased to six.
From her, commissioned emissaries were to proceed with greater powers than those of Roman praetors or governors.
And yet the old forms remained; the senate met as in the days of the Gracchi, and there were consuls and praetors as before.
Under the empire the praetors were greatly increased; under Tiberius there were sixteen who administered justice, besides the consuls, six ediles, and ten tribunes of the people.
The prefect of the city, in the time of the emperors, was a great judicial personage, who heard appeals from the praetors themselves.
After the conquest of Sicily, Sardinia, and the two Spains, new praetors were appointed to administer justice in the provinces.
There was no censor as yet chosen, and without a censor the praetors pretended that they could not entertain the prosecution.
The praetors and tribunes held their offices, the governors their provinces, under Caesar's nomination.
Another and stronger proof of the government by two praetors is afforded by the later duoviral magistracy, and the lack of friction under such an arrangement.
The fact that no trace of the dictator remains either in Tibur or Praeneste seems to imply that these two towns had better opportunities for a more rapid development, and that both had praetors at a very early period.
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.
And yet, until a few years ago, Germans obeyed implicitly the edicts and decrees of Roman praetors and tribunes.
The consul himself conducted Lentulus, and praetors the others, all attended by strong guards; but the attempt at rescue, which had been expected, did not take place.
This riot was canvassed in the Senate, and votes were passing for empowering the Praetors to whip the players.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "praetors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
