The messenger despatched for the Pretorians had sped away only a few moments, when the anxious brows of Zeno contracted suddenly.
There was only time for one agonising look between the lovers, and the Pretorianshurried their prisoner from the room.
But for the timely appearance of the troop of Pretorians with Martialis the Centurion, the wretch would have succeeded only too well in his evil intent.
On arriving at the villa he found that Sejanus had gone to the Emperor's stronghold on the eastern cliffs, where the Pretorians on duty in the island were barracked.
Her mention of the Pretorians suggested to the Greek the artful introduction of the name of Martialis, and he raised his eyes to her face with an unconcerned glance to try and discover some effect of his words.
I expected to see a gang of Pretorians with swords and chains,' she replied, with as much sarcasm as her hauteur would admit.
A command among the Pretorians was a sure road to fortune, and Marcellus could look forward with well-grounded prospects of future honors.
At the brink of the platform the Pretorians paused.
Two of the Pretorians gripped Calvaster by the elbows.
Severus seeing this came to their assistance with the Pretorians, but this step proved of so little benefit that he came near causing the ruin of the Pretorians and himself ran some risk through the loss of a horse.
He sent for Aelianus and the Pretorians who had mutinied against Nerva, pretending that he was going to employ them in some way, and relieved the world of their presence.
He was escorted by a vast number of Pretorians with numerous standards as if prepared for action, his object being to scare both us and the populace and thereby secure our allegiance.
A further proof is that when the Pretorians asked him for the money which Nymphidius had promised them, he would not give it, but replied: "I am accustomed to levy soldiers, not to buy them.
He also appointed to command the Pretorians a certain Ofonius Tigillinus, who outstripped all his contemporaries in licentiousness and bloodiness.
The latter sent some soldiers against them, who wounded and killed a few, but encouraged by their numbers and the strength of the Pretorians they became still more urgent.
And why should one enumerate the sums given to the Pretorians on the occasion of this conspiracy or the excessive honors voted to Nero and his friends?
Similarly he would dismiss the Pretorians and then send for them again, would leave the palace to retire to his brother's house and then return: in this way he dulled the enthusiasm of almost everybody interested in him.
The Pretorians did nothing that was expected of their name and reputation, for they had learned to live delicately.
He was a swarthy liar, and his promises were such that the pretorians were willing that the dream should come true.
The day on which a year previous he had been declared emperor he did nothing unusual, except to give the Pretorians twenty-five denarii, and this he continued to do every year thereafter.
The number of years was for the Pretorians twelve and for the rest sixteen; and the money to be distributed was less for some and more for others.
And he showed himself such a hard drinker that one night, when he was forced to lend aid with the Pretorians to some people whose property was on fire, he commanded, at their request for water, to pour it out hot for them.
The best of their land was given to members of the Pretorians and came to include a city called Augusta Prætoria.
Macro sent away to the camp the Pretorians that commonly surrounded the minister and the senate, after revealing to them his right as leader to do so and declaring that he brought documents from Tiberius that bestowed gifts upon them.
In company with the senate he inspected the Pretorians while they were busy with exercises and distributed to them the two hundred and fifty denarii apiece that had been bequeathed, and he added as a gift as many more.
The willing people helped guards and pretoriansin hunting Christians.
Petronius did not lose hope that Vinicius had anticipated the pretorians and fled with Lygia, or, in the worse case, had rescued her.
When thepretorians came to us, I dreaded death and torture, but I dread them no longer.
The pretorians accompanying Vinicius remained in the rear.
I had pretorians ready," cried Tigellinus; "and hadst thou not quieted them, the shouters would have been silenced forever.
Among the slaves who carry out corpses there are several youths not full grown; hence the pretorians will not notice her, and once at the house of Petronius she is safe.
The prisons were overflowing with thousands of people; every day the mob and pretorians drove in new victims.
Petronius heard from Vestinius that Cæsar himself had issued an order to put Peter and Paul in the Mamertine prison within three days, and that whole detachments of pretorians had been sent to search every house in the Trans-Tiber.
It was said also that Cæsar had gone mad, that he would command pretorians and gladiators to fall upon the people and make a general slaughter.
For this reason there were such disorders that frequently the pretorians had to interfere; and after every distribution they carried out people with broken arms or legs, and some were even trampled to death in the throng.
The pretorians might recognize thee even in disguise, and all would be lost.
Small divisions ofpretorians arrived from time to time.
Then a fifth, "When we return to our houses, pretorians will seize us.
Here and there they fought hand to hand; but the pretorians conquered the weaponless multitude easily.
It deserves to be noticed that the conspirators against Pope and McDowell, and the pet pretorians of September 6 and 7, distinguished themselves not very much in the battle of Antietam.
Once he had acquired the emperor's confidence, the ambitious and intelligent prefect of the pretorians proceeded to render himself indispensable in all things.
Recognizing in him the brother of Germanicus, the pretorians proclaimed him emperor.
While the senate was debating in such uncertainty, the pretorians discovered Claudius in a corner of the imperial palace, where he had been cowering through fear lest he too be killed.
At last Seneca, the humanitarian philosopher, turned to Burrhus and asked him what would happen if the pretorians should be ordered to kill Agrippina.
While thePretorians accused Papianus (sic) and Patruinus [Footnote: This is Valerius Patruinus.
He commanded the Pretorians and, though holding no position of management or superintendence whatever, except over the camp, [he obtained the consular honors] and subsequently actually became consul.
He entrusted to one Domitius Ulpianus the command of the Pretorians and the remaining business of the empire.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pretorians" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
