Pretorian
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The
pretorian
guards were increased; command over them was held, not by a centurion, but by the tribune Subrius Flavius, known hitherto for blind attachment to Nero.
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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