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  • noun plural (Zoöl.) A division of butterflies including the satyrs.

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  • noun Plural form of praetor.

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  • [Footnote 20: Compare Suet _Aug_ 89 3 'componi tamen aliquid de se nisi et serio et a praestantissimis offendebatur, admonebatque praetores ne paterentur nomen suum commissionibus obsolefieri [' be cheapened in prize declamations '-- Rolfe]'.]

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • De eo coacti referre praetores decretum fecerunt 'Ut

    The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888

  • Duo (praetores) deprecati sunt ne in provincias irent, M. Popillius in Sardiniam: Gracchum eam provinciam pacare &c ....

    A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885

  • M» intenti foere, missos est in Hispaniam L» Aemilios Paollos praetor, non com aex aecoribos, qoot praetores habere aolent, sed additis sex aliis, qoo facto ejtts praetura auctoritatem accepit con« aolarem.

    Doctrina numorum veterum 1792

  • B. nATP.lN02. eo modo, qno archon - Fuit hic P. Vitellius patruus Vitellii les, praetores etc. suam icerasie dignt - Aug., cujus opera Germanicus ih bello tatem-passim in nnmis conspicimus.

    Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel .. Hohler, Emerich Thomas, 1781-1846. [from old catalog] 1792

  • Jam porro in provincias, ad qnas regendas proconfoles & praetores finguli fimul quae -- fiores mittebantnr.

    Antiqvitatvm romanarvm epitome: ad vsvm seminari neapolit Salvatore Aula 1773

  • This epistle will show the learned world to have fallen into two mistakes: One, that Augustus was a patron of poets in general; whereas he not only prohibited all but the best writers to name him, but recommended that care even to the civil magistrate: _Admonebat praetores, ne paterentur nomen suum obsolefieri_, &c. The other, that this piece was only a general discourse of poetry; whereas it was an apology for the poets, in order to render Augustus more their patron.

    The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Alexander Pope 1716

  • "Ut praetores ex edictis suis perpetuis ius dicerent."] [Footnote 192: All his letters are in the eighth book of those _ad

    Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884

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