An annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic.
1The pretor favored me by not requiring her presence.
2He had married a sister of Caesar and, though still young when he died, had become a senator and pretor.
3However, a man could put away his wife at will, and by recording the fact with the nearest pretor, the act was legalized.
4Gavin Pretor-Pinney is the man who reinvented the concept of taking time out.
5Pretor-Pinney still brims with excitement whenever he talks of clouds.
6Twelve years ago, she heard Pretor-Pinney talking about his offbeat society on BBC Radio 4.
7Gavin Pretor Pinney is the founder and president of the The Cloud Appreciation Society, in Britain.
8Bird watchers keep a life list of their sightings, now cloud watchers can do the same with The Cloud Collector's Handbook by Gavin Pretor-Pinney.
9"No one named the author of the murder, for the pretor was silent," says Paul Jovius in his eulogy of the poet.