πραιτώριον: Difference between revisions

|txtha=πραιτωριου, τό, a Latin [[word]], praetorium (neuter of the adjective praetorius used substantively); the [[word]] denotes<br /><b class="num">1.</b> 'headquarters' in a Roman [[camp]], the [[tent]] of the [[commander]]-in-[[chief]].<br /><b class="num">2.</b> the [[palace]] in [[which]] the [[governor]] or procurator of a [[province]] resided, to [[which]] [[use]] the Romans were [[accustomed]] to [[appropriate]] the palaces [[already]] existing, and [[formerly]] dwelt in by the kings or princes (at [[Syracuse]] illa domus praetoria, quae regis Hieronis fuit, [[Cicero]], Verr. 2:5,12, 30); at [[Jerusalem]] it [[was]] [[that]] [[magnificent]] [[palace]] [[which]] [[Herod]] the Great had built for [[himself]], and [[which]] the Roman procurators [[seem]] to [[have]] [[occupied]] [[whenever]] [[they]] came from Caesarea to [[Jerusalem]] to [[transact]] [[public]] [[business]]: [[Philo]], [[leg]]. ad Gaium, § 38; Josephus, b. j. 2,14, 8; [[also]] the [[one]] at Caesarea, Keim, iii, p. 359f. (English translation, vi., p. 79; B. D. [[under]] the [[word]] Smith's Bible Dictionary, Praetorium).<br /><b class="num">3.</b> the [[camp]] of [[praetorian]] soldiers established by [[Tiberius]] ([[Suetonius]] 37): Winer s RWB, [[under]] the [[word]] Richthaus; (Lightfoot s Commentary on Philippians , pp. 99ff) rejects, as [[destitute]] of [[evidence]], the [[various]] attempts to [[give]] a [[local]] [[sense]] to the [[word]] in Philippians , the [[passage]] cited, and vindicates the [[meaning]] [[praetorian]] [[guard]] (so R. V.)).