- a variation of praetor.
pretor
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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To-day, in the hour of my delight, I gave rewards to all my slaves; those who have served in the house twenty years I shall take to the pretor to-morrow and free.
From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Jeremiah Curtin
"No one named the author of the murder, for the pretor was silent," says Paul Jovius in his eulogy of the poet.
From Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Ferdinand Gregorovius
He had married a sister of Caesar and, though still young when he died, had become a senator and pretor.
From The Women of the Caesars by Guglielmo Ferrero
In Rome under the Republic there was divided between the pretor and the judex the power to decide controversies.
From Concerning Justice by Lucilius A. Emery
Touching the temporal government of Rome, and oppidan affairs, there is a pretor and some choice citizens, which sit in the Capitol.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
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