πραιτώριον

Detailed Definition

• 1"head-quarters" in a roman camp, the tent of the commander-in-chief
• 2the 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 kings or princes; at jerusalem it was a magnificent palace which herod the great had built for himself, and which the roman procurators seemed to have occupied whenever they came from caesarea to jerusalem to transact public business
• 3the camp of the praetorian soldiers established by tiberius