But what can a soldier and a Pretorian wish of us?
Starting forth from the Pretorian barracks, he walked out of the city and down the Appian Way.
Do you know the name of this Pretorian officer who is seeking the Christians?
The conversion of the other Pretorian officer has greatly enraged the emperor.
Among these there was a group of officers belonging to the Pretorian guards, who criticised the different points in the scene before them with the air of connoisseurs.
The Pretorian camp was situated close to the city wall, to which it was joined by another wall which inclosed it.
My name is Marcellus, and I am a captain in the Pretorian Guard.
One of the Pretorian officers was recently converted to Christianity, and the emperor is enraged.
The pretorian guards he alarmed with apprehensions of danger and unworthy treatment; disbanding many of them occasionally as disaffected to his government, and favourers of Nymphidius.
Soon after, he was informed, that Otho was in possession of thepretorian camp.
But as for saying anything to the emperor to prevent the expedition, no one dared to do this except John the Cappadocian, the pretorian prefect, a man of the greatest daring and the cleverest of all men of his time.
The attentive reader will have marked the gradual growth of the power of the pretorian guard, who now, and on so many future occasions, ruled the destinies of the empire.
The prefect of the pretorian guards, high and important as his office had now become, was not allowed to enter the senate-house, unless he belonged to the equestrian order.
On a plain adjoining the Roman camp, the pretorian troops were drawn up in martial array: the emperor and his court took their station in front of the lines, and behind them was ranged the whole body of the people.
In the principal tent near the Pretoriangate the Caesar Julian was keeping watch.
He had intercepted the news, conveyed by the cobbler to the leather-dresser, about a plot hatched against Caesar's life by the soldiers of the Pretorian guard.
Soon afterwards, he married Galeria Fundana, the daughter of a man of pretorian rank, and had by her both sons and daughters.
It awoke the Pretorian to himself and brushed away the brief mist of sensuous sweetness which had enthralled him.
Then, deeming it time to be about his business, he gave the order to proceed to the Pretorian camp.
After her disappearance, the Pretorian yet lingered on in deep reflection.
The steward spoke the truth, for, in the handling to which the inanimate Pretorian was subjected, he exhibited no symptom of consciousness.
He is a centurion of the Pretorian Guard, and his name is Martialis.
The slave retired, and, in a few moments, the armed Pretorian made his appearance, ushering in our potter, whom we left on his way to the camp.
This extended to the Pretorian camp, and was, therefore, the natural drill and exercising ground of the troops.
Her frame was shaken with convulsive violence, and the Pretorian was enabled to contemplate another phase of the volcanic passions which had hitherto lain hid, to him at least, beneath the crust of her calm unruffled haughtiness.
Close on his heels rushed the terror-stricken Pretorian on guard, and Plautus, on his part, made a savage gesture of retaliation.
Afer loitered apart until the huge Pretorian officer went off, and then Sejanus turned towards him.
It was absurd to take them literally, even though the meddlesome Pretorian had proved to be the son of an old playmate.
It is a weakness of the military nature, and of the gorgeous Pretorian nature in particular, to be vain of a supposed fascination over females.
The Pretorian coldly returned the compliment, scarcely trusting his tongue to speak, for fear of the scorn and dislike which filled him.
There is also another Martialis, his brother Lucius, a Centurion of the Pretorian guard, at present in attendance here on our worthy friend the Prefect.
As he continued to show insanity in every way, a plot was formed against him by Cassius Chairea and Cornelius Sabinus, though they were holding tribuneships in his pretorian guard.
This is at present the number of legions which are enrolled in the service, exclusive of the cohortes urbanæ and the pretorian guard.
It was therefore voted that five thousand denarii be given to members of the pretorian guard when they had ended sixteen, and three thousand to the other soldiers when they had completed twenty years' service.
Moreover, it was now that for the first time he appointed two pretorian prefects, Quintus Ostorius Scapula and Publius Salvius Aper.
Yet he did nothing openly, for Sejanus had won the entire pretorian guard thoroughly to his own side and had gained the favor of the senators partly by benefits, partly by implanting hopes, and partly by intimidation.
There were present and took part in carrying him out the senate and the equestrian class, the women of his family, and the pretorian guard; and nearly everybody else in the city was in attendance.
Thus, at this period, she succeeded in putting out of the way Catonius Justus, captain of the pretorian guard, before he could carry out his intention of telling the emperor something about these doings.
Egypt that campaigned against them they repulsed, and did not yield till a tribune from the pretorian guard was sent against them.
Suppose I were to go to the pretorian camp, or the guards of the city, for instance?
The throng crowded forward to look at it more nearly; but divisions of pretorian foot were there, and, forming in line on both sides of the gate, prevented approach to the road.
The pretorian guards were increased; command over them was held, not by a centurion, but by the tribune Subrius Flavius, known hitherto for blind attachment to Nero.
Tigellinus was pretorian prefect, and his words had the direct meaning of a threat.
These were guarded by small detachments of pretorian infantry and cavalry; over each division of slaves were taskmasters, holding whips armed at the end with lumps of lead or iron, instead of snappers.
And again appeared a pretorian cohort of gigantic Sicambrians, blue-eyed, bearded, blond and red haired.
The pretorian guards, in so far as they were not composed of foreigners, were made up of volunteers.
In front of the arch he regained presence of mind, and thought when he saw the pretorian guard, "If they make the least difficulty in admitting me, they will prove that Lygia is in the palace by the will of Cæsar.
The people of Petronius, left in Rome, were imprisoned; his house was surrounded by pretorian guards.
And to think that it depended on me alone to be pretorian prefect at this moment.
The pretorian guards made no trouble, for all had brought proper tesseræ, which the centurion examined by the light of a lantern.
While passing the pretorian camp, they heard thundering shouts in honor of Galba.
The Emperor, who pretended to listen patiently to their complaints, had given secret orders to Modestus, the Prefect of the Pretorian Guard, to put them all to death.
Arian prelates arrived in Caesarea, and Modestus, Prefect of the Pretorian Guard, informed the Archbishop that he must admit them to communion under pain of banishment.
The Pretorian Government has had an extensive secret service for several years, and this has been of inestimable value in securing the support of the natives as well as the friendship of many whites, both in South Africa and abroad.
The wire to Pretoria remained untouched, and before the troopers had proceeded fifty miles into Transvaal territory the Pretorian Government was aware of their approach, and made preparations to meet them.
Jameson coming to their relief, while on the other was the Pretorian Government preparing to quell an insurrection which had not even started.
But thePretorian Government has made many provisions for war other than those enumerated.
The opening prelude of the Jameson raid was a mass meeting held in November, 1895, by the Johannesburg Chamber of Mines, which had always shown marked friendliness to the Pretorian Government.
Having promised Burrhus, the pretorian prefect, a remedy for a swelling in his throat, he sent him poison.
The emperor then, at the king's request, took the turban from his head, and replaced it by a crown, whilst a person of pretorian rank proclaimed in Latin the words in which the prince addressed the emperor as a suppliant.
To the noblest of the senators who were much reduced in their circumstances, he granted annual allowances, in some cases as much as five hundred thousand sesterces; and to the pretorian cohorts a monthly allowance of corn gratis.
The danger was most threatening, especially because Sejanus was the commander of the pretorian guard.
The only means of avoiding this danger was to bring pressure to bear upon the senate through the pretorian cohorts, which were as friendly to the family of Augustus as the senate was hostile.
This was a powerful recommendation with the people, the pretorian cohorts, and the legions.
She removed from office the two commanders of the pretorian guard, who were creatures of Messalina, and in their stead she had elected one of her own, a certain Afranius Burrhus.
The pretorian bands stood in order of battell armed in the field that laie before their lodgings, through which field Caratake shuld come.
What is fatal to the identification of the “hired house” in either of these spots is that the New Testament indicates it as connected with lodgings occupied by the Pretorian guard.
The “soldier that kept him” would not be far away from comrades; and soldiers in general would be accommodated in thePretorian camp, of which traces exist near the Porta Pia—a long distance from the Corso and the Ghetto.
The military roads were under the pretors, and were called pretorian roads; and the public roads for travel and commercial traffic were under the consuls, and were called consular roads.
These roads were kept entirely distinct; the pretorian roads were used for the marching of armies and the transportation of military supplies, and the consular roads were used for traffic and general travel.
Caligula happily passed out without an heir, and Claudius, next of kin, put himself in the way of the Pretorian Guard, and was declared Emperor.
Three years after the death of Seneca, Nero passed hence by the same route, killing himself to escape the fury of the Pretorian Guard.
We are also told that he was made Emperor by the Pretorian Guards, in a spirit of rollicking bravado.
I shall go into my box and see you killed, since you scorn the Pretorian Guard.
Better stand with the archangels than with the Pretorian Guard.
I cannot believe that the archangels--whoever they may be--would not prefer to be recruited from the Pretorian Guard.
If you come out of the arena alive, I will consider favorably any request of yours, and give you a place in the Pretorian Guard.
It was Hadrian also who opened the pretorian guard to provincials from Spain, Noricum and Macedonia.
The governors of the senatorial provinces were entitled proconsuls, even if they were of pretorian rank.
But the pretorian prefect Cornelius Fuscus in attempting to invade Dacia suffered a disastrous defeat in which he and most of his army perished.
However, on the preceding night he was assassinated at the instigation of the pretorian prefect, Quintus Aemilius Laetus.
After less than three months' rule he was killed in a mutiny of the pretorian guard (March, 193 A.
Cassius left his son Moecianus in Alexandria with the title of Pretorian Prefect, while he himself marched into Syria to secure that province.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pretorian" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
