| Thereafter came praetorship and consulship, and finally the quinquennial office of censor, the crown of a republican politician's career. |
| For he rose no higher than the praetorship, but published a large and not uninteresting history. |
| The praetorship of the city was a very high municipal office. |
| Other magistracies, the aedileship and the tribunate of the plebs, might be held between quaestorship and praetorship, but were not obligatory. |
| With the like indolence he held the praetorship, and in the same quiet and silence. |
| No one could be Praetor without having first been Quaestor, or Consul without having held the praetorship. |
