An annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic.
Sinônimos
Examples for "praetor"
Examples for "praetor"
1Such has been the inhumanity of the usurers and of the praetor.
2In civil suits the praetor, as we have seen, had the superintendence.
3To Publius Cornelius Lentulus, the praetor, the province of Sicily was assigned.
4One praetor, the Praetor Urbanus, presided over civil suits between Roman citizens.
5His father died while praetor, and when he himself was a child.
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.