office
Praetor
praetor
also: praetores, the praetors
The senior magistrate below the consul, with chiefly judicial functions; Trajan as consul referred most cases to the praetors and called them his colleagues.
Reading notes
- The Letters §10.12.1 praetorship
The praetor was a senior elected magistrate ranking below the consul, chiefly a judicial office and a rung of the senatorial career.
- Panegyric to Trajan §77 the praetors
Praetors, the magistrates ranking just below the consuls, chiefly judicial; Trajan as consul referred most cases to them and styled them his colleagues.