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  • These were states, such as Capua and Cumae, whose governments managed their own internal affairs, subject to the supervision of a Roman official called praefectus Capuam Cumas.

    f. The Conquest of Italy 2001

  • Now that I was a citizen again and, like Matt Gregoire, a security officer at Rampart Starcorp's alpha executive level, I was what the lawyers term a praefectus conlegius of the Commonwealth Judiciary.

    Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998

  • Huge thudding mistakes and discrepancies abound in the Latin phrases (one recurring example - the senior Roman government official in the city lives in the villa praefectus).

    Linkspam for 23-6-2009 nwhyte 2009

  • He had not yet left the Caesarion when Cassius Parmensis boarded it to tell them that the densely packed soldiers were drinking the water much faster than the praefectus fabrum had estimated.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • I have left Cornelius Gallus to administer Egypt as praefectus.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • I have left Cornelius Gallus to administer Egypt as praefectus.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • That such were not her concerns, but lay within the province of Antony and his praefectus fabrum?

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • He had not yet left the Caesarion when Cassius Parmensis boarded it to tell them that the densely packed soldiers were drinking the water much faster than the praefectus fabrum had estimated.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • That such were not her concerns, but lay within the province of Antony and his praefectus fabrum?

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • "So what's your feeling about ending bachelorhood, praefectus?"

    Hadrian's Wall.html Dietrich, William 2004

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