praetors in English

noun
1
each of two ancient Roman magistrates ranking below consul.
Quaestors, praetors , and consuls were often employed after their year of office at Rome as ‘pro-magistrates’ to administer the provinces of the Roman empire.
noun
    pretor

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1. In 23 these were replaced by two praetors (praetores aerarii or ad aerarium), selected by lot during their term of office.

2. His Libri ad Edictum embraced a commentary, not only on the edicts of the urban and peregrine praetors, but also on that of the curule aediles.

3. The praetur ( Latin praetura; also Germanized praetur) was one of the higher offices of the Roman official career, the cursus honorum (usually the third office after the bursary and Aedility).The incumbents were called praetores (Germanized: praetors, singular: praetor).They were elected for one year by the people in the comitia centuriata.