praesidium, ī [praesideō], n., help, aid, defense; defensive force, garrison; fort, station, post.

praestō, see stō.

praesum, see sum.

praeter, prep. with acc., past, beyond; contrary to, against; besides, except.

praetereā [praeter + is], adv., in addition to this, besides, moreover.

praetermittō, see mittō.

praetexō, ere, uī, tus [texō, to weave], to provide with a border; toga praetexta, a (purple) bordered toga, worn by magistrates and freeborn children till the sixteenth or seventeenth year, when they became of age and assumed the toga virīlis, which was wholly white; the girls wore the toga praetexta until they married.

praetor, ōris [orig. praeitor, from prae + ], m., a leader, commander; praetor, magistrate, judge.

praetōriānus, a, um [praetōrium], adj., belonging to the bodyguard; praetorian; as subst., praetōriānī, ōrum, pl. m., the praetorians.

praetōrium, ī, n., the imperial bodyguard.