Praetor
  | Please |help| us convert the |Dictionary of Roman Coins| from scans to text by typing the original text here. Please add updates or make corrections to the NumisWiki text version as appropriate. Praetor. This was a title which the Romans. immediately after the expusion of the kings, conferred on the consul and other great magistrates. These were men who in the law, the army and amongst the people (praeirent) took the lead or who were appointed to any office of dignity whether for things sacred or profane. But in B.C. 367, a magistrate was created to whom this name was thenceforward exclusively appropriated. Two causes led to his institution. The first was to abate the discontent of the Patricians with the law which had rendered the Plebeians eligible to the consulship. The second was to provide some competent person as president at the tribunals during the too frequent absences of the consuls on warlike expeditions. |
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Praetor
| Please |help| us convert the |Dictionary of Roman Coins| from scans to text by typing the original text here. Please add updates or make corrections to the NumisWiki text version as appropriate. Praetor. This was a title which the Romans, immediately after the expusion of the kings, conferred on the consul and other great magistrates. These were men who in the law, the army and amongst the people (praeirent) took the lead or who were appointed to any office of dignity whether for things sacred or profane. But in B.C. 367, a magistrate was created to whom this name was thenceforward exclusively appropriated. Two causes led to his institution. The first was to abate the discontent of the Patricians with the law which had rendered the Plebeians eligible to the consulship. The second was to provide some competent person as president at the tribunals during the too frequent absences of the consuls on warlike expeditions. At first only one Praetor was elected, but on account of the numerous strangers to whom business of every kind drew to Rome, a second was appointed whose functions were solely confined to the administration of justice. This latter officer was called Praetor Peregrinus to distinguish him from the former who was called Praetor Urbanus. In or about the year B.C. 228, two praetors were chosen to govern the recently conquered provinces of Sicily and Sardinia in the name of the Republic. And in the same year, six praetors were created to govern subjugated Spain. It was thus that as Rome extended her conquests beyond Italy, she augmented the number of her magistrates to rule over her aggrandisements and these were called Praetores Provinciales. Note: Caesar constituted ten Praetors instead of the usual eight who had continued to preside from the time of Sylla. |
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