praetorian

• The Japanese, on the contrary, were enrolled as a kind of praetorian guard, or janissaries; in this character, however, their pride and power became so formidable that the king grew uneasy and disbanded them. —  THE ENGLISH GOVERNESS AT THE SIAMESE COURT
• But Catilina could not venture to place his abler partisans, such as the young senator Gaius Cethegus and the equites Lucius Statilius and Publius Gabinius Capito, at the head of the movement; for even among the conspirators the traditional hierarchy of rank held its ground, and the very anarchists thought that they should be unable to carry the day unless a consular or at least a praetorian were at their head. —  The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)
• Their recall remained of course left to the discretion of the regent as well as their nomination; as a rule it was assumed that the consular governor should not remain more than two years, nor the praetorian more than one year, in the province In the Administration of the Capital Lastly, so far as concerns the administration of the city which was his capital and residence, the Imperator evidently intended for a time to entrust this also to magistrates similarly nominated by him. —  The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)
• Palace after palace had been wrecked, remodeled and included in the whole, under the succeeding emperors, until the imperial quarters on the Palatine had grown into a city within a city There were barracks for the praetorian guard that lacked not much of being a fortress. —  Caesar Dies
• OF THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF STIPULATIONS Stipulations are either judicial, praetorian, conventional, or common: by the latter being meant those which are both praetorian and judicial 1 Judicial stipulations are those which it is simply part of the judge's duty to require; for instance, security against fraud, or for the pursuit of a runaway slave, or (in default) for payment of his value 2 Those are praetorian, which the praetor is bound to exact simply in virtue of his magisterial functions; for instance, security against apprehended damage, or for payment of legacies by an heir. —  The Institutes of Justinian

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