praetorship

How to use praetorship in a sentence

• The quaestorship might be spent in one, the praetorship and the consulship were sure to be followed by a year abroad.

  The Private Life of the Romans | Harold Whetstone Johnston

• The night that he was denied the praetorship he spent in play; that wherein he was to die he spent in reading.

  The Essays of Montaigne, Complete | Michel de Montaigne

• Curule aediles were instituted at the same time as the praetorship, and continued throughout the Republic.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 17, Slice 3 | Various

• Caius Calpurnius, having his command continued to him for a year after the expiration of his praetorship, was sent into Etruria.

  The History of Rome; Books Nine to Twenty-Six | Titus Livius

• No one could be Praetor without having first been Quaestor, or Consul without having held the praetorship.

  History of Rome from the Earliest times down to 476 AD | Robert F. Pennell