propretor

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noun In Roman antiquity, a magistrate filling the office and exercising the authority of a pretor, but not holding the titular rank; one who, having discharged the office of pretor at home, was sent into a province to command there with pretorial authority; also, an officer sent extraordinarily into the provinces to conduct the government with the authority of a pretor.

noun (Rom. Antiq.) A magistrate who, having been pretor at home, was appointed to the government of a province.

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Nero, however, wished to bring about some reform which would help the masses, and he gave orders in an edict that the rates of all the vectigalia be published; that at Rome the pretor, and in the provinces the propretor and proconsul, should summarily decide all suits against the tax-farmers and that the soldiers should be exempt from these same vectigalia.

The Women of the Caesars Ferrero, Guglielmo, 1871-1942 1911
Nero, however, wished to bring about some reform which would help the masses, and he gave orders in an edict that the rates of all the _vectigalia_ be published; that at Rome the pretor, and in the provinces the propretor and proconsul, should summarily decide all suits against the tax-farmers and that the soldiers should be exempt from these same _vectigalia_.

The Women of the Caesars Guglielmo Ferrero 1906
Born in 100 B.C.; assassinated in 44; famous as general, statesman, orator, and writer; served in Mitylene in 80; captured by pirates in 76; questor in 68; pontifex maximus in 63; propretor in Spain in 61; member of the First

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome Various 1887