Pretorian /(?)/
Pre·to·ri·an
Pretorian
a.
- Of or pertaining to a pretor or magistrate; judicial; exercised by, or belonging to, a pretor; as, pretorian power or authority.
Phrases & Compounds
- Pretorian bands [or] guards
- the emperor's bodyguards, instituted by the Emperor Augustus in nine cohorts of 1,000 men each.
- Pretorian gate
- that one of the four gates in a camp which lay next the enemy.
Pretorian
n.
- A soldier of the pretorian guard.