praetor

• 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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