PREFECT of the pretorium, the leader of the pretorian bands destined for the emperor's guards, consisting, according to Dion, of 10,000 men. This officer, according to Suetonius, was instituted by Augustus, and usually taken from among the knights.
PREFECT of the pretorium
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