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ALL captaines and governours to whom the rule of an army belonged were in ancient time calledo 1.1 Prae∣tores; This word Praetor signifying then three chiefe officers among the Romanes: First a Consul; secondly a L. chiefe Iustice; thirdly a L. Generall in warre; all of them being calledp 1.2 Praetores, quasi Praeitores qurniam iure & ex∣ercitu praeibant. Answerable to which threefold acception
this word Praetorium hath three severall significations: sometimes it signifieth a Princes palace or manour house; sometimes a great hall or place where iudgment was wont to be given; and lastly the L. Generall his pavilion in the campe;q 1.3 from which last signification it is that those soul∣diers that gaue attendance about that pavilion for the gard of their captaines person are sometimes called Milites Praetoriani, sometimes Cohors praetoria;* 1.4 and hee to whom the oversight of these souldiers was committed was thence called Praetorio praefectus.
Pancirol. in notitiam im∣per. orient. cap 5.
Pighius in Aequipet. compos.
Asconius in Verrinam 3.
Christr Fr. Sylvius in Catil. 2am.