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Roman History. The cohort responsible for guarding the praetor or (subsequently) the emperor; a soldier belonging to this group. Cf. praetorian, adj.…
historical. In the later Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire: any of the cohorts or companies into which the imperial guard was divided. Now rare.