propraetorn.
/prəʊˈpriːtə/, /prəʊˈpriːtɔː/, U.S. /proʊˈpridər/ Roman History.
A magistrate of the Roman Republic who, after holding the office of praetor, was given the administration of a province not under military control, still with the authority of a praetor. Also: a person acting in place of a praetor.
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1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 1109 Iunius Vindex being Proprætor of Gavle.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxx. 769 P. Lentulus the Propretour.
a1676 M. Hale tr. C. Nepos Life P. Atticus (1677) 48 So they courted and complemented Octavius, and withal at the same time made Octavius Pro-pretor.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Pro-pretor, or Pro-prætor, a Roman Magistrate, who having discharged the Office of Pretor at home, was sent into a Province to command there.
1774 J. Burgh Polit. Disquis. I. iii. iii. 98 The Romans..had almost condemned Marcius to death for assuming the title of proprætor given him by the army.
1834 T. De Quincey Cæsars in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 186 In the Imperatorial provinces, where the governor bore the title of Proprætor, there was provision made for a military establishment.
1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. IV. 321 Lepidus, the Roman propraetor, was a man of sense and culture.
1921 E. L. White Andivius Hedulio iii. xxvi. 387 He himself is going out as propraetor of Asia.
2000 Classical Jrnl. 96 38 An amusing anecdote in which Brutus, in his capacity as propraetor of the Province of Asia, has to act as judge in an argument between two quarrelsome characters.
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proˈpraetorship n. the office or position of propraetor; the period in which a person holds this office.
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a1652 I. Jones Most Notable Antiq. called Stone-Heng (1655) 13 The second year of Julius Agricola his Proprætorship, or Lievtenancy in Britain.
a1831 J. H. Newman in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) X. 280/1 From the period of his Consulate to his Proprætorship in Cilicia.
1995 Trans. Amer. Philol. Soc. 125 49 His grief later led him to sign on to the cohort of C. Memmius during his propraetorship of Bithynia in 57–56 B.C., which allowed him to visit the grave.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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