Pretorian in example sentence

All the pretorian guards taking turn before the Mamertine prison knew him, and generally they raised not the least difficulty; this time, however, the line did not open, but a centurion approached him and said,--"Pardon, noble tribune, to-day we have a command to admit no one."

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.

Meanwhile came a detachment of Numidian horse, who belonged to the pretorian guard.

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