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Ever since the House of Hades when he’d resigned his praetorship, ambrosia and nectar didn’t taste like his favourite foods from Camp Jupiter.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

Indeed the most important function of the consulship, praetorship and, until its disappearance in the third century, the aedileship, came to be the celebration of the regular festivals.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly

Henceforth the quaestorship had to be held before the praetorship, and the latter before the consulate.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly

In 242 B. C. a second praetorship, the office of the praetor peregrinus or alien praetor was established.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly

The other touched Popilius, who, in his praetorship, had banished all Tiberius's friends; whereupon Popilius, being unwilling to stand the hazard of a trial, fled out of Italy.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh