praetorship

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Examples

• The quaestorship might be spent in one, the praetorship and the consulship were sure to be followed by a year abroad.

• The night that he was denied the praetorship he spent in play; that wherein he was to die he spent in reading.

• Curule aediles were instituted at the same time as the praetorship, and continued throughout the Republic.

• Caius Calpurnius, having his command continued to him for a year after the expiration of his praetorship, was sent into Etruria.

• No one could be Praetor without having first been Quaestor, or Consul without having held the praetorship.