pretor
Britishnoun
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In Rome under the Republic there was divided between the pretor and the judex the power to decide controversies.
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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.
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However, a man could put away his wife at will, and by recording the fact with the nearest pretor, the act was legalized.
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Touching the temporal government of Rome, and oppidan affairs, there is a pretor and some choice citizens, which sit in the Capitol.
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"No one named the author of the murder, for the pretor was silent," says Paul Jovius in his eulogy of the poet.
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