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  • Senators and Praetors had time to debate and study.

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  • Praetors were one step below consuls in the power chain and handled judicial matters.

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  • There is no clearer example of this than that of the Praetors sent by them to any place was to Capua; whom they sent, not because of their ambition, but because they had been requested by the Capuans, who (there being discord among them) judged it necessary to have a Roman Citizen within that City who would restore order and re-unify them.

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  • But the meaning will be clear enough even for the Senate, and our fellow Praetors will of course ratify it without discussion.

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  • He has done enough stupid things in the past to be deprived of his command if he were anyone else—but unfortunately he has friends among both Praetors and Senators, and he's the delight of the expansionist lobby in the Tricameron.

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  • But the meaning will be clear enough even for the Senate, and our fellow Praetors will of course ratify it without discussion.

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  • But the meaning will be clear enough even for the Senate, and our fellow Praetors will of course ratify it without discussion.

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  • Command she wielded, but with eyes watching her, spies of various younger Senators and Praetors.

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  • Command she wielded, but with eyes watching her, spies of various younger Senators and Praetors.

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  • Some Senators and Praetors grumbled bitterly among themselves.

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