pretorian : Idioms & Phrases
Pretorian bands ∨ guards , ∨ Pretorians
(Rom. Hist.) , the emperor's bodyguards, instituted by the Emperor Augustus in nine cohorts of 1,000 men each.
Webster 1913
Pretorian gate
(Rom. Antiq.) , that one of the four gates in a camp which lay next the enemy.
