Pretorian bands
| (Rom. Hist.) | the emperor's bodyguards, instituted by the Emperor Augustus in nine cohorts of 1,000 men each. |
See also: Pretorian
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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For their men of war; it is a dangerous state, where they live and remain in a body, and are used to donatives; whereof we see examples in the janizaries, and pretorian bands of Rome; but trainings of men, and arming them in several places, and under several commanders, and without donatives, are things of defence, and no danger.
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