Pretorian
in example sentence
Meanwhile came a detachment of Numidian horse, who belonged to the
pretorian
guard.
More example sentences with word pretorian
He slept all the day following his visit to Chrysothemis, it is true; but in the evening he gave command to bear him to the Palatine, where he had a confidential conversation with Nero; in consequence of this, on the third day a centurion, at the head of some tens of
pretorian
soldiers, appeared before the house of Plautius.
Suppose I were to go to the
pretorian
camp, or the guards of the city, for instance?"
He was accompanied, therefore, on every expedition by whole legions of servants, without reckoning divisions of
pretorian
guards, and Augustians; of the latter each had a personal retinue of slaves.
The throng crowded forward to look at it more nearly; but divisions of
pretorian
foot were there, and, forming in line on both sides of the gate, prevented approach to the road.
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