. "In partic., a prœtor , a Roman magistrate charged with the administration of justice; the office was first made distinct from the consulship A. U. C. 387. After the first Punic war, A. U. C. 490, there were two, praetor urbanus for Roman citizens , and praetor peregrinus for strangers : praetor primus centuriis cunctis renunciatus, i. e. appointed first" . "In partic., a prœtor , a Roman magistrate charged with the administration of justice; the office was first made distinct from the consulship A. U. C. 387. After the first Punic war, A. U. C. 490, there were two, praetor urbanus for Roman citizens , and praetor peregrinus for strangers : praetor primus centuriis cunctis renunciatus, i. e. appointed first" . .