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Definition: Pretorian gate
Pretorian
\Pre*to"ri*an\, a. [L. praetorians: cf. F.
pr['e]torien.]
Of or pertaining to a pretor or magistrate; judicial;
exercised by, or belonging to, a pretor; as, pretorian power
or authority.
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Pretorian bands or
Pretorian guards, or
Pretorians
(Rom. Hist.), the emperor's bodyguards, instituted by the
Emperor Augustus in nine cohorts of 1,000 men each.
Pretorian gate (Rom. Antiq.), that one of the four gates in
a camp which lay next the enemy. --Brande & C.
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