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Definition of Praetorship
1. Noun. The office of praetor.
Derivative terms: Praetor
Definition of Praetorship
1. Noun. (context: Roman history) The office or term of a praetor. (defdate from 16th c.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Praetorship
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Praetorship
Literary usage of Praetorship
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Candidates Defeated in Roman Elections: Some Ancient Roman "Also-Rans" by Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton (1991)
"CANDIDATES FOR THE praetorship 1. Candidates Defeated in Elections 1. Q.
Aelius Tubero (155) Aelius Tubero was a candidate for a praetorship, probably for ..."
2. The History of Rome by Wilhelm Ihne (1882)
"By the establishment of the praetorship the depart- The insig- ment of justice
had become independent of the general business political and military ..."
3. Roman Public Life by Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge (1901)
"These were known as the praetorship and the Curule Aedileship. The institution
of the former office was a constitutional change of the first magnitude, ..."
4. Cornell Studies in Classical Philology by Cornell University (1917)
"The prosecutor does not hesitate to charge openly that the votes necessary for
the election of Verres to the praetorship by the Comitia Centuriata were ..."
5. Lectures on the History of Rome: From the Earliest Times to the Fall of the by Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Leonhard Schmitz (1852)
"The patricians retained the possession of the praetorship for thirty-two years;
but when a great portion of the ager publicus had passed into the hands of ..."
6. Historical Introduction to the Private Law of Rome by James Muirhead, Henry Goudy (1899)
"... competent to a man under the former, but none of those competent to him under
the latter.14 SECTION 43.—THE INSTITUTION OF THE PEREGRIN praetorship The ..."
7. Teuffels̓ History of Roman Literature by Wilhelm Sigismund Teuffel (1891)
"46, 4, 18, 1), and formulae de dolo malo from the time of his praetorship (Cic.
off. 8, 60. 61. nat. deor. S, 74). ..."
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