Marius,# Gaius Marius had been left in obscurity for more than six whole years after his praetorship and had scarcely the remotest hope of gaining the consulship.
When the praetorship was expired, he was prosecuted for corruption; and Cicero was once more compelled to appear on the other side, and defend him, as he had done Gabinius.
The road to it lay through the praetorship and the consulship; these offices, therefore, became the prizes of the State; and being in the gift of the people, they were sought after by means which demoralized alike the givers and the receivers.
He had carried the praetorship against Cato; and Cicero in one of his speeches had painted him as another Clodius or Catiline.
He had at that time the most honorable praetorship of the year, and was named for the consulship four years after, being preferred before Cassius, his competitor.
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.
So another praetorship was given to Cassius; the gaining of which could not so much oblige him, as he was incensed for the loss of the other.
Cato answered, that he lost the praetorship the first time, not by the voice of the people, but by the violence and corrupt dealing of his adversaries; whereas in the election of consuls, there had been no foul play.
Nero's tutor (although he wished to visit Athens), and obtained the praetorship through the influence of Agrippina, with whom his name was coupled by popular rumour.
The date is fixed as the year of Cicero's praetorship by ยง 147, 'mea quaestio de pecuniis repetundis.
The enterprise may have belonged to the praetorshipof Laelius (145 B.
After his praetorship he obtained his first independent military command in Farther Spain.
It was still more important that his tenure of the praetorship had added him to the ranks of the official nobility.
Sulla said that the people would not give him the praetorship because they wished him to be aedile first.
He entered on his cursus honorum in the reign of Vespasian, and attained the praetorship under Domitian.
The games of the praetorship in the first century, as in the fifth,(419) constituted a tax which only a great fortune could easily bear.
The Romans overcame the disadvantage of the annual change of commanders-in-chief by the use of the proconsulship and pro-praetorship often long prorogued, whereby officers of ability retained year after year the command of the same armies.
This was also the sole function of the praetorship and quaestorship, which were now filled by imperial appointment upon the recommendation of the city prefects.
Indeed the most important function of the consulship, praetorship and, until its disappearance in the third century, the aedileship, came to be the celebration of the regular festivals.
Brutus and Cassius had at first, after the compact made by them with Antony and the rest, gone into the Forum and discharged the activities of praetorship with the same diligence as before.
Sellar to point to the praetorship of Memmius (58 B.
Moreover, the praetor was seldom a veteran lawyer, but generally a man of moderate experience and ambitious views, who used the praetorship merely as a stepping-stone to the higher offices of state.
By his influence he rose through the minor offices to the praetorship (14 A.
Several examples are recorded, in the age of Honorius, of vain and popular nobles, who celebrated the year of theirpraetorship by a festival, which lasted seven days, and cost above one hundred thousand pounds sterling.
One hundred and sixty-eight years before the Christian aera, the family was ennobled by the Praetorship of Anicius, who gloriously terminated the Illyrian war, by the conquest of the nation, and the captivity of their king.
Lucullus' praetorship 679, since the propraetor had nothing to do on Italian soil.
So at that time Cato for the reasons specified had some hope of a proper triumph, and the consuls in the senate proposed that a praetorship be given him, although by law it could not yet be his.
There was no gainsaying even from Cato, although in the praetorship which he soon after held, he would never mention the title of the other's laws, which were called the "Julian.
His restoration to his rank and the matter of the praetorship are mentioned by Dion Cassius (37, c.
Tettius Julianus was restored to his praetorshipas soon as it was discovered that he had taken refuge with Vespasian: but Grypus was allowed to retain his rank.
They decreed that Vespasian himself should be consul with Titus for his colleague, and on Domitian they conferred the praetorship with the powers of a consul.
Frontinus then resigned his praetorship and Caesar Domitian succeeded him.
On Antonius Primus they conferred the insignia of the consulship, and those of the praetorship on Cornelius Fuscus and Arrius Varus.
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