An annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic.
1 Discord arises between Cæsar, now prætor , and Cato, tribune of the people.
2 Again, he himself appointed the prætor urbanus, as he often did subsequently.
3 He has turned round his own slave before the prætor .
4 Indeed, a prætor was sent to imprison him and lead him away for punishment.
5 Yes, I am persuaded some consul or prætor dwelt here only fifty years ago.
6 I defied the rage of the Senate, while I was prætor ; still more hot madness.
7 Civil trials, or differences between private persons were tried in the forum by the prætor .
8 C. Servilius Glaucia was prætor in this year.
9 Is it to be commander (a prætor ) of an army?
10 Later they had a battle with the prætor Lucius Furius, were defeated, and sent envoys asking peace.
11 His first loss was at the siege of Nola, where Marcel'lus, the prætor , made a successful sally.
12 When then a man has turned round before the prætor his own slave, has he done nothing?
13 In vain did the ædile command; in vain did the prætor lift his voice and proclaim the law.
14 His father, who had been prætor , died suddenly at Pisa when his son was in his sixteenth year.
15 As a consequence, while he was consul for the third time no tribune nor prætor dared to convene the senate.
16 After this the Sardinians, deeming it a calamity that a Roman prætor was forever set over them, made an uprising.
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