propraetor

Or pro·pre·tor

[proh-pree-ter]

noun

Roman History.

1. an officer who, after having served as praetor in Rome, was sent to govern a province with praetorial authority.

propraetor

/ prəʊˈpriːtə /

noun

1. (in ancient Rome) a citizen, esp an ex-praetor, granted a praetor's imperium to be exercised outside Rome, esp in the provinces

Other Word Forms

• propraetorial adjective
• propraetorian adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of propraetor¹

1570–80; < Latin prōpraetor; pro- ¹, praetor

Word History and Origins

Origin of propraetor¹

Latin, from prō praetōre one who acts for a praetor

Example Sentences

There is truth in this criticism, of course; but unless it is clearly understood that Tertullian drew the distinction, which this passage of the Apology and others suggest, between Natural law, as conceived by the Stoics, and civil law as regarded by a Propraetor, he is likely to be misjudged.

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Curio collected troops in Umbria and Etruria for Caesar, who sent him to Sicily as propraetor in 49.

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He went there early in the year 57 b.c., on the staff of the Propraetor Memmius, and remained till the spring of the following year.

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In the year 57 the routine of his life was for a short time broken by his accompanying the propraetor C. Memmius, the friend to whom Lucretius dedicates his great poem, as one of his staff, to the province of Bithynia.

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Sulla had caused the Senate to confer upon Pompey the command in this campaign with the imperium of a propraetor, although he had not yet held any public office.

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