Lexicographical Neighbors of Praefects
Literary usage of Praefects
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Roman Public Life by Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge (1901)
"Its praefects at this early stage represent the military character of the despotism
perhaps more purely than any other officials, and even the reign of the ..."
2. Roman Public Life by Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge (1901)
"Its praefects at this early stage represent the military character of the despotism
perhaps more purely than any other officials, and even the reign of the ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, John Bagnell Bury (1897)
"... and the appeal from their tribunal to that of the praefects was almost the
only mark of their dependence.115 But the civil government of the empire was ..."
4. Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology by Society of Biblical Archaeology (1900)
"The handiest list of the praefects of Egypt is certainly that published by Prof.
... Here is then the list of praefects, with the earliest and latest dates ..."
5. The Student's Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, William Smith (1857)
"The office of praefects of the city (Praefectus urbi) had been instituted by
Augustus, and he gradually extended his civil and criminal jurisdiction over ..."
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