The first was the Praetor Peregrinus, who was the chief judge in trials involving one or more foreigners.

The author of the abridged life of Cato which is commonly considered as the work of Cornelius Nepos, asserts that Cato, after his return from Africa, put in at Sardinia, and brought the poet Quintus Ennius in his own ship from the island to Italy ; but Sardinia was rather out of the line of the trip to Rome, and it is more likely that the first contact of Ennius and Cato happened at a later date, when the latter was Praetor in Sardinia.

* Praetor – Latin for " Man who goes before ; first man.

* 337 BC: Elected the first non-patrician Praetor ( Q. Publilius Philo ).

In 337 BC, the first Plebeian Praetor ( Q. Publilius Philo ) was elected.

Other sources, however, make her only daughter by her first marriage Claudia Pulchra, born around 13 BC, who became the second wife of her distant cousin, Publius Quinctilius Varus after the death of his first wife, Vipsania Marcella, and following the death of her second husband she married Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus, by whom he had a son born in 12 BC named Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus-who was the father of Empress Messalina-and a daughter Valeria, who married Lucius Vipstanus Gallus, Praetor in 17, who died during his office, and by whom she had issue.

" Their first mission, in the debut novel, Taking Wing, is to set up power-sharing talks among the various Romulan factions that, in the wake of Praetor Shinzon's death in Nemesis, threaten to plunge the Romulan Empire into civil war.

At first Intertel attempted to take itself more seriously than Mensa and operate with a higher degree of formality ; officer titles included " Praetor " and " Quaestor " and there was a morals clause for members.

According to Livy in his " History of Rome ", an ancient instruction written in archaic letters commands: " Let him who is the Praetor Maximus fasten a nail on the Ides of September.

The men as he spoke began raise a dais of earth around him and brought the standards and that attracted the attention of the Praetor, Blaesus.

Beginning in the late Republic, a former Praetor could serve as a Propraetor (" in place of the Praetor ") and act as the governor of one of Rome's provinces.

He held in succession the offices of Quaestor and Aedile, and then, around 162, was named as Praetor.

It claims he was the son of a blacksmith, was adopted by one Pescennia Marcellina ( otherwise unknown ), and who started his career as a Centurio primus pilus before becoming a Tribunus Militum, and then a Praetor.

* 45 BC: He was made Praetor.

Augustus made changes that were designed to reduce the Praetor to being an imperial administrator rather than a magistrate.

He was a Quaestor in 126 BC, a Tribune in 121 BC, an Aedile in 118 BC, a Praetor in 115 BC, Governor of Sicily in 114 BC and elected Consul in 109 BC.

Consuls also exercised the highest juridical power in the Republic, being the only office with the power to override the decisions of the Praetor Urbanus.

The Praetors also presided at the quaestiones perpetuae ( which were criminal proceedings ), so-called because they were of certain types, with a Praetor being assigned to one type on a permanent basis.

In Italy, until 1998, Praetor was a magistrate with particular duty ( especially in civil branch ).

But, having attracted the notice of Lucius Valerius Flaccus, he was brought to Rome, and successively held the offices of Cursus Honorum: Military tribune ( 214 BC ), Quaestor ( 204 BC ), Aedile ( 199 BC ), Praetor ( 198 BC ), Consul ( 195 BC ) together with his old patron, and finally Censor ( 184 BC ).

The imperium of the Magister Equitum was not regarded as superior to that of a Consul, but rather a par with a Praetor.

Ordinary soldiers would see all the officers training with them including the Praetor or the Emperor if he was in camp.

The area they are in is divided up into self-contained " Zones ," each with a wildly different style of government and way of life, although the province of " Imar " ( ruled by a Praetor ) appears to be the central seat of government for this entire Earth.

In this, he had to deal with the ambitions of Marcus Caelius Rufus, the Praetor peregrinus, who had turned against Caesar as he had been hoping for the post of Urban Praetor.

** Praetor Gaius Marius is sent to govern Lusitania and has to deal with minor Lusitanian unruliness.

** Romans score victories against Lusitanian attacks with Praetor Gaius Marius and Proconsul Decimus Junius Brutus ( who replaced Marius ), but still the Lusitanians resist with a long guerrilla war.

Caesar's munus of 46 BCE included at least one equestrian, son of a Praetor, and possibly two senatorial volunteers.

Praetor () was a title granted by the government of Ancient Rome to men acting in one of two official capacities: the commander of an army ( in the field or, less often, before the army had been mustered ); or, an elected magistratus ( magistrate ), assigned various duties ( which varied at different periods in Rome's history ).

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Under the Republic, it was worn by generals in their triumphs, and by the Praetor Urbanus when he rode in the chariot of the gods into the circus at the Ludi Apollinares.

Then in 308 BC he was elected Praetor for the fourth time, as a reward for his services at Longulae.

During the episodes Beyond Good and Evil, she attacked Lilandra alongside Apocalypse, yet was abandoned at the mercy of Lilandra and Imperial Guard Praetor Gladiator.

Although at some point he had failed to be elected aedile, in around 90 BC, Octavius was elected Praetor, and in the following year ( 89 BC ) was given a propraetoreal command in one of the eastern provinces.

In an actio, which was civil, the Praetor could either issue an interdictum ( interdict ) forbidding some circumstance or appoint a iudex ( judge ).

During the time of the Roman Republic the Urban Praetor allegedly issued an annual edict, usually on the advice of jurists ( since the Praetor himself was not necessarily educated in the law ), setting out the circumstances under which he would grant remedies.

When the Praetor administered justice in a tribunal, he sat on a sella curulis, which was that part of the court reserved for the Praetor and his assessors and friends, as opposed to the subsellia, the part occupied by the iudices ( judges ) and others who were present.

Because of their extended rights ( their longa manus, literally " long hand "), the patres familias also had a series of extra duties: duties towards the filii and the slaves ( though some of these duties were not recognized by the original ius civile, but only by the ius gentium, specially directed to foreigners, or by the ius honorarium, the law of the Magistratus, especially the Praetor, which emerges in a latter period of Roman law ).

The most obscure part of Lucullus ' public career is the year he spent as Praetor in Rome, followed by his command of Roman Africa, which probably lasted the usual two-year span for this province in the post-Sullan period.

In AD 62, early in Nero's reign, he was impeached, while Praetor, as the author of Codicilli, mock wills which libelled priests and senators.

In Germany of the 16th and 17th centuries it became a fashion that educated people named " Schulze " or " Schultheiß " or " Richter ", which means " judge ", put their name into the Latin language as " Praetorius ", referring to former officials called " Praetor urbanus ".

Also, a Praetor could exercise the functions of the Consuls throughout Rome, but their main function was that of a judge.

As a Praetor, a magistrate was escorted by six lictors, and wielded imperium.

The other was the Praetor Urbanus, the chief judicial office in Rome.

The Praetor Urbanus was not allowed to leave the city for more than ten days.

Although not part of the Cursus Honorum, upon completing a term as either Praetor or Consul, an officer was required to serve a term as Propraetor and Proconsul, respectively, in one of Rome's many provinces.

After the senior Romulan leadership was assassinated in the Romulan Senate, the Remans took over the Senate and Shinzon became Praetor ; he was, however, dispatched by Captain Jean-Luc Picard shortly afterwards.

The involvement of a Praetor in either was as follows.

By the time of Diocletian, however, this two-stage process had largely disappeared, and the Praetor would either hear the whole case in person or appoint a delegate ( a iudex pedaneus ), taking steps for the enforcement of the decision ; the formula was replaced by an informal system of pleadings.

The legal provisions arising from the Praetor's Edict were known as ius honorarium ; in theory the Praetor did not have power to alter the law, but in practice the Edict altered the rights and duties of individuals and was effectively a legislative document.

In court, the Praetor was referred to as acting e tribunali or ex superiore loco ( lit.