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