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In 337 we hear of the first plebeian praetor--truly a momentous event, showing that the old profound belief is dying out, which demanded a religious and patrician qualification for all legal work.— The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
16). In 59 Calenus was praetor, and brought forward a law that the senators, knights, and tribuni aerarii, who composed the judices, should vote separately, so that it might be known how they gave their votes (Dio Cassius xxxviii.— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
The praetor, the great representative of Roman power, passed from town to town attended by a single servant In 196 Cato was occupied with his canvass for the consulship of the year 195, to which he was elected in company with his friend Flaccus.— Cato Maior de Senectute with Introduction and Notes
Another friend had been chosen praetor, and would be the new presiding judge.— Roman life in the days of Cicero
Cicero, who was praetor that year (the praetor was the magistrate next in rank to the consul), defended Cluentius, and told his client's whole story Cluentius and his step-father were both natives of Larinum, a town in Apulia, where there was a famous temple of Mars.— Roman life in the days of Cicero

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