An annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic.
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Examples for "praetor "
Examples for "praetor "
1 Such has been the inhumanity of the usurers and of the praetor .
2 In civil suits the praetor , as we have seen, had the superintendence.
3 To Publius Cornelius Lentulus, the praetor , the province of Sicily was assigned.
4 One praetor , the Praetor Urbanus, presided over civil suits between Roman citizens.
5 His father died while praetor , and when he himself was a child.
1 The pretor favored me by not requiring her presence.
2 He had married a sister of Caesar and, though still young when he died, had become a senator and pretor .
3 However, a man could put away his wife at will, and by recording the fact with the nearest pretor , the act was legalized.
4 Gavin Pretor - Pinney is the man who reinvented the concept of taking time out.
5 Pretor - Pinney still brims with excitement whenever he talks of clouds.
6 Twelve years ago, she heard Pretor - Pinney talking about his offbeat society on BBC Radio 4.
7 Gavin Pretor Pinney is the founder and president of the The Cloud Appreciation Society, in Britain.
8 Bird 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.
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