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Definition of Propretors
1. propretor [n] - See also: propretor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Propretors
Literary usage of Propretors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Other quaestors, called provincial or military quaestors, served as assistants
to the proconsuls or propretors who governed the several provinces: their ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... of proconsular rank with the chief command of an army or to propretors without
such a command; but the office carried with it almost sovereign power. ..."
3. The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt by Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829)
"All the year following they were devising how to break out; as contrariwise the
Roman propretors, partly by terror of severe judgments and inquisitions, ..."
4. The History of Nations by Henry Cabot Lodge (1906)
"... but it was the senate that conferred on them the military authority by prolonging
their term of office for a second year as proconsuls or propretors. ..."
5. The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt by Walter Raleigh, William Oldys, Thomas Birch (1829)
"All the year following they were devising how to break out; as contrariwise the
Roman propretors, partly by terror of severe judgments and inquisitions, ..."
6. The History of Rome by Barthold Georg Niebuhr, William Smith, Leonhard Schmitz, Julius Charles Hare, Connop Thirlwall (1851)
"... who are called propretors in the history of the campaign, assuredly received
this dignity also from the senate and people. The Gauls, whose approach was ..."
7. Livy by Livy (1844)
"... the forces that had been at Cannes were decreed; and it was ordered, that, of
the propretors, ..."
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