prætor

{{context|after 366 BC}} An annually-elected curule magistrate, subordinate to the consuls in provincial administration, and who performed some of their duties; numbering initially only one, later two (either of the {{term|praetor urbanus|prætor urb?nus|urban prætor|lang=la}} or the {{term|praetor peregrinus|prætor peregr?nus|peregrine prætor|lang=la}}), and eventually eighteen.