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Looking out, he saw that they were all young praetorian recruits.

These special forces, however, also had military missions beyond the role of a praetorian guard.

The army was a praetorian guard outside of the constitution, subject only to the king.

Between 404 and 405, he was praetorian prefect of the East for a second time.

Behind him was a rank of the exclusive Praetorian guard.

The journalists in question consider themselves to be the media equivalent of the praetorian guard.

Maggie's praetorian guard were abandoning the chairman of the Party.

He is now weighing a reduction to four, plus his praetorian guard, Force-17.

I hope the rest of your Praetorian guard is a cut above this character.'

In 62 he was promoted to the prefecture of the praetorian guards.

Though I believe that they haven't yet had the courage to go about their praetorian business."

He was Praetorian prefect of the East between 459 and 460.

Later, the post would fall second to that of the praetorian command, but its position remained highly prestigious.

He looked and saw praetorian cohorts marching south around the Palatine.

A gathering frown suddenly shaded the face of the praetorian commander.

Marcel was in charge of the small army that surrounded his mother like a Praetorian guard.

Court officials (including the most senior dignitaries such as praetorian prefects).

However, later that year, Rome dispatched military force under praetorian authority to put down the rebellion.

He could issue, on his own authority, praetorian edicts, but they concerned only matters of detail.

The former had become an arrogant and dangerous power because of his hold upon the praetorian legions, which he commanded.

Between 310 and 314 he was appointed Praetorian prefect of the East.

Immediately after their senate confirmation, the emperors went to the camp of the praetorian guard.

Originally, the praetorian prefects were drawn from the equestrian class.

He came from a well-established, wealthy and aristocratic family of Praetorian rank.

In most of the cases of this type the remedy was not the action itself, but a praetorian extension.

"hunter"; also the name of a minor Praetorial house.

The leadership functions of any corporate body at Rome might be termed praetorial.

Octavian allowed the senate to retain control over these Praetorial provinces.

"The Senate Council now boasts status as a praetorial authority, and therefore by extension is a military body."

A constant amazement, how the praetorial system was learning to tie its own hands, and how quickly the ropes could be tightened.

The development and improvement of Roman Law owes much to the wise use of this praetorial discretion.

"After the Federation Wars," he began, "our leadership, the Praetorial system, was rearranged.

One did not usu-ally refuse a praetorial request, even at one removed; such were assumed (by the prudent) to have the force of an order.

I believe he... there is a praetorial guard in him who is frustrated at being on sentry duty here."

Latin dictionaries of moderate size, such as can be obtained in any public library, list the praetorial nouns and adjectives, uses and major sources.

"If you imagine I'm going to allow you to shuttle between the ships and cram praetorial vigilance down the throats of honorable men, you've been mistaught.

Release of waste products into the ambient environment, even waste so seemingly innocuous as steam or hot water, was forbidden by Praetorial indict, and a capital crime.

According to Marcellinus a string was attached to the side window of the praetorial office of Maximinus, where the anonymous informers could have hooked their denunciations in a letter.

Fasces-symbolism might derive-via the Etruscans-from the eastern Mediterranean, with the labrys, the Anatolian and Minoan double-headed axe, later incorporated into the praetorial fasces.

In the following year (198 BC), his praetorial imperium was prorogued by the Senate, initially to take on the task of allocating land in Italy for veterans who had served in Hispania.

From this victory in ch'Rihan's first war, after some squabbling among various continents for supremacy, came the Praetorial and Senatorial structure that we know today, a resurrection of the councillories crossed with the Queen's Twelve.

The audiencias with a viceroy or captain general in charge were referred to as audiencias pretoriales ("praetorial audiencias"), or occasionally audiencias virreinales ("viceregal audiencias"), in the case of the former.

They were from the Taman Guards division, ceremonial troops with minimal weapons training-a praetorial guard without teeth, like many ceremonial units they practiced parading and boot-shining and looking like soldiers, though at Alabino they did have a full divisional set of tanks and guns.

On 26 January 1968, he was sentenced by a Pretorian court to 20 years' imprisonment.

For a listing of the provinces, now known as eparchy, within each quarter (known as a pretorian prefecture), see Roman province.

She spent five years in a South African jail for "sabotage" - a common Pretorian misnomer for antiapartheid activities.

The Pretorian government was in some sort of crisis at the time and relayed the message to the Sector Government at Altmark.

He was raised in the Pretorian town of Atteridgeville, where local taxi drivers distributed CDs of his music to their fares.

Thus the Pretorian guard became more and more important in Rome as Rome became more and more luxurious and feeble.

His control over Gaul was insecure: his pretorian prefect of that region was slain at Arles in an uprising of the soldiery there.

The SANG was the House of Saud's pretorian guard consisting of personnel drawn from tribes loyal to the King and royal family.

In the final reorganisation by Constantine the Great, in 318, the domain, facing Sassanid Persia, became the pretorian prefecture Oriens 'the East', the core of later Byzantium.

Since Emperor Diocletian's Tetrarchy it became part of the Provincia Insularum, in the diocese of Asiana in the eastern empire's pretorian prefecture of Oriens.

Between Papa Doc's pretorian guard of official thugs, the notorious Tontons Macoutes, and his voodoo doctors, the Haitian people, already miserably poor, undernourished and demoralized, were reduced to almost hopeless passivity.

He rejected the offer, however, because of ill-health and his children, but more likely to leave the position to Quintus Junius Blaesus, uncle of Lucius Aelius Sejanus the powerful pretorian prefect.

Conceived by the Vusisizwe Players and the Market Theater of Johannesburg, the production takes its name from a protest song of the 1950's that commemorates a march by 30,000 Pretorian women protesting apartheid laws of South Africa.

History is filled with notable suicides, Brutus and Cato of Utica, Hannibal, Lucretia, Cleopatra, Seneca. . . . Nero killed himself lest he fall into the hands of Otho and the Pretorian guards.

Alarmed by this news, the pretorian prefect Taurus speedily retreated, as if avoiding a foreign enemy, and using the rapid changes of the public courier-service, he crossed the Julian Alps, at the same stroke taking away with him Florentius, who was also prefect.

The Audiencias chaired by the viceroy were called viceregal Audiencias, and the chaired ones by a governor-captain general were the pretorial Audiencias.

As the pretorial Audiencias were chaired by a governor-captain general, this situation caused to appear the post of president-governor of major districts, with direct rule over a province and superior control of other provinces included inside the territorial district of the Audiencia, so that they exercised functions similar to the viceroys.