praetorian

How To Use praetorian In A Sentence

• A large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble.
• There actually is quite the rounded out selection of units to make as well, ranging from infantry to spearman to archers to legionnaires to praetorians and beyond.
• Eventually the Visigoths, after a brief period of fighting for the Romans in Spain, were established in south-west Gaul in 418 by the praetorian prefect.
• In the latter two cases, soldiers and officers are isolated from society and can represent a praetorian challenge to legitimate rule.
• He punished the delators; reduced the privileges of the praetorians, and reformed the law courts.
• Cassiodorus, the Praetorian praefect, is addressed to the maritime tribunes; and he exhorts them, in a mild tone of authority, to animate the zeal of their countrymen for the public service, which required their assistance to transport the magazines of wine and oil from the province of Istria to the royal city of Ravenna. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• The provinces were grouped into larger administrative units called a diocese, ruled by a governor general who answered to a praetorian prefect, who in turn answered to one of the tetrarchs.
• Although Vindex was defeated, Nero's suicide and the support of Gaius Nymphidius Sabinus and the praetorians encouraged Galba to march on Rome, accompanied by Otho, governor of Lusitania.
• Legitimating soldiers’ lobbies is likely to warp national-security policy and crack open the door to praetorianism. Warrior Politics
• A large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble.