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What is a praetor?

What is a praetor? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical) The title designating a Roman administrative official whose role changed over time:
    1. (originally) A consul in command of the army.
    2. (after 366 BC) An annually-elected curule magistrate, subordinate to the consuls in provincial administration, and who performed some of their duties; numbering initially only one, later two (either of the praetor urbānus (“urban praetor”) or the praetor peregrīnus (“peregrine praetor”)), and eventually eighteen.
  2. (by extension) A high civic or administrative official, especially a chief magistrate or mayor. Sometimes used as a title.
  3. The title of the chief magistrate, the mayor, and/or the podestà in Palermo, in Verona, and in various other parts of Italy.
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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.

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