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Molding from the inscription in the Kastell Böhming [], Kipfenberg, Bavaria. A legatus Augusti pro praetore (lit. ' envoy of the emperor – acting for the praetor ') was the official title of the governor or general of some Imperial provinces of the Roman Empire during the Principate era, normally the larger ones or those where legions were based.
The lex Gabinia (Gabinian Law), lex de uno imperatore contra praedones instituendo (Law establishing a single commander against raiders) or lex de piratis persequendis (Law on pursuing the pirates) [1] was an ancient Roman special law [2] passed in 67 BC, which granted Pompey the Great proconsular powers in any province within 50 miles of the Mediterranean Sea without holding a properly ...
From the times of the Roman Republic, legates received large shares of the military's rewards at the end of a successful campaign. This made the position a lucrative one, so it could often attract even distinguished consuls or other high-ranking political figures within Roman politics (e.g., the consul Lucius Julius Caesar volunteered late in ...
A provincia was originally a task (e.g., war with Carthage) assigned to someone, sometimes with geographic boundaries; when such territories were formally annexed, [a] the fixed geographical entity became a "province" in modern terms, but in the early and middle Republic, the "task" was most often a military command within a defined theatre of operations with unclear geographic boundaries.
Titus Statilius Maximus Severus Hadrianus (propraetorian legate) 114-116 Gnaeus [Minicius Faustinus] (propraetorian legate) [5] 116-118 Aulus Platorius Nepos (propraetorian legate) 123-126 Quintus Tineius Rufus (propraetorian legate) 133-136 [...]cius Fronto (propraetorian legate) 138 [6] Julius Crassipes (propraetorian legate) 138-139
Praetor (/ ˈ p r iː t ər / PREE-tər, Classical Latin: [ˈprae̯tɔr]), also pretor, was the title granted by the government of ancient Rome to a man acting in one of two official capacities: (i) the commander of an army, and (ii) as an elected magistratus (magistrate), assigned to discharge various duties.
The governor was the province's chief judge. He had the sole right to impose capital punishment, and capital cases were normally tried before him.To appeal a governor's decision necessitated travelling to Rome and presenting one's case before either the praetor urbanus, or even the Emperor himself, an expensive, and thus rare, process.
It provides a year-by-year list of all known office-holders, including not only the magistracies of the cursus honorum from consul to quaestor, but also promagistracies and military commands in the provinces, legates (both official and ad hoc), military prefects, priesthoods, and special commissions. Each entry is documented with ancient ...