Praetors

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(history) The title designating a Roman administrative official whose role changed over time:

(by extension) A high civic or administrative official, especially a chief magistrate or mayor. Sometimes used as a title.

(translating Italian "pretore") The title of the chief magistrate, the mayor, and/or the podestà in Palermo, in Verona, and in various other parts of 17th- and 18th-century Italy.

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The word "praetors" in example sentences

All that Heineccius says about the usurpation of the right of making these edicts by the praetors is false, and contrary to all historical testimony. ❋ Unknown (1206)

They were men of great expectations, since the praetors were the second highest-ranking of the annually elected public officials in Rome; only the two consuls stood higher. ❋ Barry Strauss (2009)

The praetors were the true organs of public opinion. ❋ Edward Gibbon (1765)

In the beginning of the seventh century of Rome they were made perpetual: four praetors were annually empowered to sit in judgment on the state offences of treason, extortion, peculation, and bribery; and Sylla added new praetors and new questions for those crimes which more directly injure the safety of individuals. ❋ Unknown (1206)

The praetors, however, subsequently allowed the person outraged to put his own estimate on the wrong, the judge having a discretion to condemn the defendant either in the sum so named by the plaintiff, or in a less amount; and of these two kinds of penalties that fixed by the Twelve Tables is now obsolete, while that introduced by the praetors, which is also called 'honorary,' is most usual in the actual practice of the courts. ❋ John Baron Moyle (1891)

Such colonies were ruled by "praetors" (R.V. marg., ❋ M.G. Easton (1897)

Colossal likenesses of praetors and senators, of military leaders and heroic soldiers, stood with their backs to the outside, as though standing guard over the grounds within. ❋ David R. George III (2011)

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