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Praetorship

noun
1.
The office of praetor.






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"Praetorship" Quotes from Famous Books



... distinction upon the side that conducted the operation but vast dishonor upon the side that endured it, so that some preferred to die rather than submit to any such treatment. Cincinnatus also captured a city of theirs called Corvinum[11] and returned: he removed Minucius from his praetorship because of his defeat, and himself resigned ...
— Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) • Cassius Dio

... of the fourth century B.C. (between the years 356- 300) the plebeians gained admittance to the dictatorship, the censorship, the praetorship, and to the College of Augurs and the College of Pontiffs. They had been admitted to the College of Priests having charge of the Sibylline books, at the time of the passing of the Licinian laws. With plebeians in all these positions, the rights of ...
— A General History for Colleges and High Schools • P. V. N. Myers



Words linked to "Praetorship" :   praetor, office, berth, billet, place, post, position, situation, spot



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