Pretorian /(?)/

Pre·to·ri·an

Pretorian

a.
  1. 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.
  1. A soldier of the pretorian guard.