OT - Forum Decorum

[Growltigga]

Praetor, I like the French for all their faults, Canadians and Australians are good people too!!

BTW, Praetors were not officers in the Praetorian guard, the guard was formed originally to guard praeteors. The title originally meant a consul, and later a judicial magistrate. In 242 B.C. two praetors were appointed, the urban praetor (praetor urbanus), deciding cases to which citizens were parties, and the peregrine praetor (praetor peregrinus) deciding cases between foreigners. The urban praetor exercised the functions of the consuls in their absence and of the peregrine praetor when he was holding a military command. As I recall, two additional praetors were appointed to administer Sicily and Sardinia, and two more to administer Spain. A principal duty of praetors was the production of the public games. Under the empire, the functions of the praetor were gradually taken over by the other magistrates and title was more an honorific.

I guess you want to be more a Praetorian ie a elite guardsman of the late empire (and generally a german mercenary) rather than a Praetor (a magistrate and game producer) - maybe not

PS spot who did classical civilizations at uni