Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Praetorium

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

PRAETO'RIUM (στρατηγεῖον). The tent of the general-in-chief or commander of an army (see the wood-cut p. 127,); so termed because the consul who had the chief command was in early days styled praetor. Liv. x. 33. Id. vii. 12.

2. The residence of the governor of a province, at which he administered justice (Cic. Verr. ii. 4. 28. Ib. ii. 3. 35.); whence transferred to the palace of any king or prince. Juv. x. 161.

3. Latterly the same designation was also given to the splendid country villas of the noble and wealthy Romans, which were built with so much expense and luxury under the imperial period. Suet. Aug. 72. Id. Tib. 39. Stat. Sylv. i. 3. 25.