office
praetor
also: praetores
Annually-elected magistrate ranking below consul; presided over the standing courts and (as praetor urbanus) issued the annual edict that governed civil procedure.
Reading notes
- Ad M. Brutum 1.11 §2 praetorian comitia
The praetorian comitia were the electoral assemblies (comitia centuriata) that voted for praetors, the second-highest magistracy in the cursus honorum; holding the praetorship was a prerequisite for the consulship and for commanding provincial armies.
- Ad Quintum Fratrem 1.1 §1 praetors
Roman magistrates who, after their year of office in Rome, were assigned provinces to govern; here the praetors at Rome whose support Cicero had hoped would secure Quintus's recall.
- Ad Quintum Fratrem 2.1 §2 draw the judges by lot through the urban praetor
The praetor urbanus, the chief judicial magistrate at Rome, supervised the empanelling of jurors by lot. Marcellinus wanted the bribery courts staffed and running before the elections.
- On the Laws §1.17 praetor's edict
The annual proclamation in which the urban praetor set out the legal remedies and formulas he would grant during his year of office; with the Twelve Tables, one of the chief sources of Roman civil law that Cicero contrasts with the philosophical derivation of right.
- Tenth Philippic §7 while he was urban praetor
Brutus held the city praetorship in 44 BC but, fearing Antony's violence, stayed away from Rome and dispensed no justice in person. The urban praetor was the chief magistrate for civil lawsuits at Rome.
Mentioned in 95 works (497 mentions)
On Invention
For Publius Quinctius
For Quintus Roscius the Comic Actor
For Marcus Tullius
Against Caecilius (Divinatio)
Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book I
- §27 praetor
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Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book II
- §12 praetor
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Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book III
- §15 praetor
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Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book IV
- §7 praetor
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Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book V
- §7 praetor
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- §140 praetor
- §145 praetor
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- §166 praetor
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