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- Look up praefectus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Praefectus, often with a further qualification, was the formal title of many, fairly low to high-ranking...
- Apollinaris (Latin: Apollinarius) was Praetorian Prefect of Gaul from May 408 or earlier until 409 AD, when he was succeeded by his friend Decimus Rusticus...
- praetorians or imperial guards were commanded by one, two, or even three praefects (praefecti praetorio), who were chosen by the emperor from among the equites...
- bodyguard, confirmed that Numerian had been murdered by the Praefect, and after executing the Praefect, he was proclaimed Emperor by the soldiers. Carinus immediately...
- Anicius Auchenius B****us (fl. 382–384) was a politician of the Roman Empire. B****us was a native of Beneventum and patron of that city, as well as of Fabrateria...
- practice of tax farming. Government positions such as quaestor, aedile, or praefect were funded by the office-holder. To prevent any citizen from gaining too...
- some modern accounts insinuate that the salary was cut by the Christian praefect Helpidius because Libanius was a pagan, relations between the two were...
- under Tiberius for eight years (from AD 4) in Germany and Pannonia as praefect of cavalry and legatus. Paterculus' Compendium of Roman History spans a...
- kept the imperial treasure, and by the influence of Balista, Valerian's praefect, Macri**** gained the imperial office together with his brother Quietus...
- The town became a municipium in the 1st century. Pliny the Elder was the praefect in charge of the naval fleet at Misenum in AD 79, at the time of the eruption...