pretorian

Of or pertaining to a pretor; exercised by a pretor; judicial: as, pretorian authority; also, of or pertaining to a pretorium.

Of or belonging to the bodyguard of a Roman emperor.

A soldier of the pretorian guard.

A soldier of the pretorian guard.

Of or pertaining to a pretor or magistrate; judicial; exercised by, or belonging to, a pretor.

the emperor’s bodyguards, instituted by the Emperor Augustus in nine cohorts of 1,000 men each.

that one of the four gates in a camp which lay next the enemy.