How to use in-sentence of “praetorian”:
– Sejanus had served the imperial family for almost twenty years when he became Praetorian Prefect in AD15.
– Although the Praetorian Guard proved faithful to the aging Tiberius, their potential political power had been made clear.
– Furius Victorinus, one of the two praetorian prefects, was sent with Lucius, as were a pair of senators, and part of the praetorian guard.
– Shortly afterwards, the Praetorian Guard killed him in the Forum.
– The Ancient GreekGreek historian Zosimus wrote that Florianus was praetorian prefect while Tacitus was emperor.
– A revolt by the Praetorian Guard in October 97 caused him to Adoptionadopt an heir.
– One of the two Praetorian Prefects, Tarrutenius Paternus, had actually been involved in the conspiracy, but was not detected at this time.
– The Praetorian Guard was a force of bodyguards used by Roman Emperors.
Example sentences of “praetorian”:
- Immediately after their senate confirmation, the emperors went to the camp of the praetorian guard.
- The Praetorian Guard declared Caligula's uncle Claudius emperor in his place.
- After a brief and tumultuous year in power, a revolt by members of the Praetorian Guard compelled him to adopt the more popular Trajan as his heir and successor.
– Immediately after their senate confirmation, the emperors went to the camp of the praetorian guard.
– The Praetorian Guard declared Caligula’s uncle Claudius emperor in his place.
– After a brief and tumultuous year in power, a revolt by members of the Praetorian Guard compelled him to adopt the more popular Trajan as his heir and successor.
– Other minor legacies are the establishment of the institution called “family” with surnames for all Roman citizens and the set up of the Praetorian Guard as an elite of warriors.
– Gibbon sees the Praetorian Guard as the main catalyst of the empire’s initial decay and eventual collapse, a seed planted by Augustus at the start of the empire.
– There was a conspiracy involving officers of the Praetorian Guard, members of the Roman Senate and members of the imperial court.
– Pertinax tried to restore discipline in the Praetorian Guard, and did not pay them what they had expected.
– Caracalla’s successor, the Praetorian Prefect of the Guard Macrinus, was defeated at Nisibis and in a peace with Artabanus he gave up all the Roman conquests and paid a heavy contribution to the Parthians.
– Severus marched on Rome to oust Didius Julianus and had him decapitated on 1 June 193, then dismissed the Praetorian Guard and executed the soldiers who had killed Pertinax.
– In AD 23, Sejanus convinced Tiberius to have the Praetorian fort built just outside Rome.
– Marcus Salvius Otho bribed the Praetorian Guard, already very unhappy with the emperor, to his side.
– Early in 188, Cleander disposed of the current praetorian prefect, and himself took over supreme command of the Praetorians at the new rank of “a pugione” with two praetorian prefects subordinate to him.
– Each Tetrarch was himself often in the field, while delegating most of the administration to the hierarchic bureaucracy headed by his respective Praetorian Prefect, each supervising several Vicarii, the governors-general in charge of another new administrative level, the civil diocese.
– Commodus continued to rule through a cabal, which now consisted of Marcia, his new chamberlain Eclectus, and the new praetorian prefect Quintus Aemilius Laetus, who about this time also had many Christians freed from working in the mines in Sardinia.
– He first recruited and set up the Praetorian Guard.
– After the Praetorian Guard was established under Augustus, Sejanus introduced reforms which saw the unit go from a mere bodyguard to an influential branch of the government.
– Other victims at this time were the praetorian prefect Julius Julianus, Commodus’s cousin Annia Fundania Faustina, and his brother-in-law Mamertinus.