The praetor delegated his power to three classes of judges, called respectively judex, arbiter, and recuperator. |
Little is known about him except that he was curule aedile c.67, praetor c.64, and later a pro praetor. |
When Caesar was a praetor, he supported a tribune who wanted Pompey recalled to restore order in Rome. |
To boot, seizing the opportunity, Junius Otho, a praetor, and Brutidius Niger, an aedile, submitted an additional charge of maiestas. |
As if the praetor should fairly dismiss him from the stage, whom he had taken in to act a while. |
Once again, elections were held for aedile, praetor, quaestor and the other traditional offices of the Republic. |