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minister.' Constantine removed active military command in 312. The prefect remained as chief quarter-master general responsible for the logistical supply of the army. The prefect was the chief financial officer whose office drew up the global imperial budget. His office drew up the state liturgical obligations laid on the richer inhabitants of the Empire. He ceased to be head of administration which had to be shared with the master of the offices attached to the palace. Constantine in 331 confirmed that from the sentence of the praetorian praefect there should be no appeal. A similar jurisdiction in civil cases was acquired by him not later than the time of
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the post was open to senators also, and if an equestrian was appointed he was at the same time raised to the senate. Down to the time of Constantine, who deprived the office of its military character, the prefecture of the guards was regularly held by tried soldiers, often by men who had fought their
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The following is a list of all known prefects of the Praetorian Guard, from the establishment of the post in 2 BC by Augustus until the abolishment of the Guard in 314. The list is presumed to be incomplete due to the lack of sources documenting the exact number of persons who held the post, what
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In addition to his military functions, the praetorian prefect came to acquire jurisdiction over criminal affairs, which he exercised not as the delegate but as the representative of the emperor. By the time of Diocletian he had become a kind of grand-vizier as the emperor's vice-regent and 'prime
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and contributed to a rapid rate of turnover in the imperial succession. The praetorians thus came to destabilize the Roman state, contrary to their purpose. The praetorian prefect became a major administrative figure in the later empire, when the post combined in one individual the duties of an
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Whether Tiberius Julius Alexander held the office of Praetorian prefect is disputed, and rests on a fragment from a recovered papyrus scroll. If he did held the post, he may have done so during the Jewish wars under Titus, or during the 70s as his colleague in Rome. See
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emerged as the highest-level administrative division of the Empire. The prefects again functioned as the chief ministers of the state, with many laws addressed to them by name. In this role, praetorian prefects continued to be appointed by the
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Ligur. Modern historians suggest that, if Valerius Ligur was a prefect at all, he may have been mistaken for a man named Varius Ligur, who seems to have been a more likely candidate for the office. See Bingham (1997), p.
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With the fall of the western part of the Empire into the hands of warlords, these, in order to have support in their new domains, recognized the supremacy of the emperor of the eastern part, reuniting at least
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in the 7th century AD, when wide-ranging reforms reduced their power and converted them to mere overseers of provincial administration. The last traces of the prefecture disappeared in the
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Under the empire the praetorians or imperial guards were commanded by one, two, or even three praefects (praefecti praetorio), who were chosen by the emperor from among the
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way up from the ranks. In course of time the command seems to have been enlarged so as to include all the troops in Italy except the corps commanded by the city praefect (
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their names were and what the length of their tenure was. Likewise, the Praetorians were sometimes commanded by a single prefect, as was the case with for example
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greatly reduced the power of these prefects as part of his sweeping reform of the empire's administrative and military structures.
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The existence of Varius Ligur is disputed, and is only inferred from a single passage by Cassius Dio, who identifies him as
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deprived the praetorian prefecture altogether of its military character but left it the highest civil office of the empire.
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The special position of the praetorians made them a power in their own right in the Roman state, and their
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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for the young sons of Constantine ca 330 A.D. From 395 there were two imperial courts, at
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the Empire under him, the prefectures were maintained as a way of delimiting the new
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Son of Marcus Arrecinus Clemens, who was Praetorian prefect under emperor Claudius
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was recognized as the prefect of Gaul (which served him as a pretext to seize the
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the Visigoths were recognized for their dominion over the prefecture of Hispania;
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The praetorian guard in the political and social life of Julio-Claudian Rome
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The insignia of the praetorian prefect of Illyricum, as depicted in the
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For praetorian prefects after the reformation of the office by emperor
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The names and dates for the years 260-285 are based on A.H.M. Jones,
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Death of an Emperor: Flavius Josephus (Exeter Studies in History)
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imperial chief of staff with direct command over the guard also.
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The Pretorian Prefect from Commodus to Diocletian (AD 180–305)
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was often abbreviated in inscriptions as "PR PR" or "PPO".
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Dates from 2 BC to AD 260 based on Guy de la Bédoyère,
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This recognition would be maintained until the rise of
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Index

Praefectus praetorio
a series
Military of ancient Rome
753 BC
AD 476
Structural history
Army
Unit types and ranks
Decorations and punishments
Legions
Auxilia
Generals
Navy
Fleets
Admirals
Campaign history
Wars and battles
Technological history
Military engineering
Castra
Siege engines
Triumphal arches
Roads
Political history
Strategy and tactics
Infantry tactics
Frontiers and fortifications
Limes
Walls
Limes Britannicus

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