the camp of the prœtorians

castrum, i, n. [kindred with casa, q. v.].

In sing., any fortified place; a castle, fort, fortress (more rare than castellum):

ei Grunium dederat in Phrygiā castrum, etc.,

Nep. Alcib. 9, 3; Liv. 32. 29, 4; Dig. 27, 1, 17 fin. —

Esp., nom. propr.

Castrum Altum or Album, in Hispania Tarraconensis, Liv. 24, 41, 3.—

Castrum Inui, or simply Castrum, an ancient city of the Rutuli, near Ardea, Verg. A. 6, 775;

called Castrum,

Ov. M. 15, 727; Sil. 8, 359. —

Castrum Novum, a city on the seacoast of Etruria, Liv. 36, 3, 6; Plin. 3, 5, 8, § 51.—

Another Castrum Novum, on the sea-coast of Picenum, now Giulia Nova, [p. 299] Plin. 3, 13, 18, § 110; also called absol. Castrum, Vell. 1, 14, 8.—

Castrum Truentinum, a maritime city of Picenum, on the river Truentus, Cic. Att. 8, 12, B, 1;

also called Truentum,

Plin. 3, 13, 18, § 110.—

Castrum Vergium, a fortress of the Bergistani in Hispania Tarraconensis, now Berga, Liv. 34, 21, 1.—Far more freq.,

In plur.: castra, ōrum, n. ( castra, ae, f.: castra haec vestra est, Att. ap. Non. p. 200, 30; Trag. Rel. p. 238 Rib.).

Lit., several soldiers ' tents situated together; hence, a military camp, an encampment; among the Romans a square (quadrata);

later, after the manner of the Greeks, sometimes circular, or adjusted to its situation,

Veg. Mil. 1, 23. It was surrounded by a trench (fossa) and a wall (vallum), and had four gates: Porta Praetoria, the front, chief gate, on the opp. side from the enemy, from which the legions marched; opp. to this, Porta Decumana (in later times Porta Quaestoria), the back gate;

Porta Principalis Dextra, and Porta Principalis Sinistra, situated on the two sides of the camp,

Liv. 40, 27, 4 sq.; cf. Dict. of Antiq.—

Phrases.

With adj.:

stativa,

occupied for a long time, permanent, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 12, § 29; Caes. B. C. 3, 30; 3, 37; Sall. J. 44, 4; Tac. A. 3, 21:

aestiva,

summer camp, id. ib. 1, 16; Suet. Claud. 1:

hiberna,

Liv. 29, 35, 13 (more freq. absol. aestiva and hiberna, q. v.):

navalia,

an encampment on the shore for protecting the fleet and the troops while landing; sometimes connected with the ships drawn to land, Caes. B. G. 5, 22 Herz.; cf. id. ib. 5, 11; Liv. 29, 35, 13;

called also nautica,

Nep. Alcib. 8, 5; id. Hann. 11, 6 (cf. id. ib. § 4; Liv. 44, 39): lunata, crescent-shaped, Auct. B. Afr. 80.—With numerals:

una,

Tac. A. 4, 2:

bina,

Cic. Phil. 12, 11, 27; Liv. 4, 27, 3:

quina,

Caes. B. C. 3, 9.—

With verb:

locum castris antecapere,

Sall. J. 50, 1; cf.:

capere locum castris,

Liv. 4, 27, 3; 9, 17, 15;

and montes castris capere,

Tac. A. 12, 55: castra metari, Cael. ap. Non. p. 137, 18; Caes. B. C. 3, 13, 3; Hirt. B. G. 8, 15 al.:

facere,

Caes. B. G. 1, 48; Nep. Milt. 5, 2; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 12, § 29 al.:

ponere,

Caes. B. G. 2, 5; 7, 35; Nep. Hann. 5 fin.:

ponere et munire,

Sall. J. 75, 7:

munire,

Caes. B. G. 1, 49; Liv. 44, 39, 1:

communire,

Caes. B. G. 5, 49; Liv. 23, 28, 3:

castra castris conferre,

id. 10, 32, 5; 23, 28, 9:

castris se tenere,

Caes. B. G. 1, 40, 8:

castra movere,

to break up, to decamp, id. ib. 1, 39 fin.; also syn. with to march forth from a camp, id. ib. 1, 15 Herz.; 1, 22; 2, 2; Sall. C. 57, 3; Nep. Dat. 8, 4; id. Eum. 12 fin. et saep.—Hence, also, promovere, Caes. B. G. 1, 48:

movere retro,

Liv. 2, 58, 3:

removere,

id. 9, 24, 4:

proferre,

Caes. B. C. 1, 81:

castris castra inferre,

Enn. Trag. 201 Vahl.—

Castra Praetoriana, Praetoria, Urbana or simply Castra, the barracks of the Prœtorians in the suburbs of Rome, Suet. Tib. 37; id. Claud. 21; Tac. A. 4, 2; Suet. Aug. 29; id. Claud. 36; Dig. 48, 5, 15. —

Castrorum filius, a surname of Caligula, who was brought up in the camp, Suet. Calig. 22; Aur. Vict. Caes. 3.—So, Castrorum mater, an appellation of Faustina, the wife of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, because she accompanied him in an expedition against the Quadi, Capitol. Marc. Aur. 26.—Hence both appell. in later inscriptions as titles of the Roman emperors and empresses. —

Esp. as nom. propr., like castrum.

Castra Corneliana or Cornelia, on the north coast of Africa, near Utica, so called because the elder Scipio Africanus first pitched his camp there, after his landing in Africa, in the second Punic war, Caes. B. C. 2, 24; 2, 25; 2, 37; Mel. 1, 7, 2; Plin. 5, 4, 3, § 24.—

Castra Caecilia, in Lusitania, Plin. 4, 22, 35, § 117.—

Castra Hannibalis, a seaport town in Bruttium, Plin. 3, 10, 15, § 95.—

Castra Pyrrhi, a place in Grecian Illyria, Liv. 32, 13, 2.—

Castra Vetera or Vetera, a place on the Lower Rhine, now Xanthen, Tac. H. 4, 18; 4, 21; 4, 35; id. A. 1, 45.—

Castra Alexandri, a district in Egypt, Curt. 4, 7, 2; Oros. 1, 2.—

Meton.

Since, in military expeditions, a camp was pitched each evening, in the histt. (esp. Livy) for a day ' s march:

secundis castris ( = bidui itinere) pervenit ad Dium,

Liv. 44, 7, 1; so Tac. H. 3, 15; cf.:

alteris castris,

Liv. 38, 13, 2; Curt. 3, 7.—

So tertiis castris,

Liv. 38, 13, 11; 38, 24, 1; Tac. H. 4, 71:

quartis castris,

Liv. 44, 46, 10:

quintis castris,

Caes. B. G. 7, 36; Liv. 28, 19, 4:

septimis castris,

id. 40, 22, 1:

decimis castris,

id. 27, 32 fin.; 28, 33, 1.—

Military service (hence, often opp. forum and toga), Nep. Epam. 5, 4; Vell. 2, 125, 4; Tib. 4, 1, 39:

qui magnum in castris usum habebant,

Caes. B. G. 1, 39.—

Of beehives:

cerea,

Verg. A. 12, 589:

in apium castris,

Pall. 1, 37, 4.—

Of a sheepfold, Col. 6, 23, 3.—

Of political parties, regarded as arrayed in hostility:

si ad interdicti sententiam confugis... in meis castris praesidiisque versaris,

Cic. Caecin. 29, 83.—

Of philosophical sects:

Epicuri castra,

Cic. Fam. 9, 20, 1:

O castra praeclara (Epicuri)!

id. ib. 7, 12, 1; Hor. C. 3, 16, 23; Sen. Ep. 2, 4.

praetōrĭus, a, um, adj. [id.].

Of or belonging to the prœtor or prœtors, prœtorian:

jus,

proceeding from the prœtor, consisting of his decisions, Cic. Off. 1, 10, 33:

comitia,

the election of prœtor, Liv. 10, 22:

potestas,

the office of a prœtor, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 24, 69:

turba,

to be found about the prœtor, accustomed to wait upon him, id. Verr. 2, 1, 52, § 137:

jus praetorium, quod praetores introduxerunt adjuvandi, vel supplendi, vel corrigendi juris civilis gratiā: quod et honorarium dicitur,

Dig. 1, 1, 7; Gai. Inst. 4, 34:

pignus,

Dig. 35, 2, 32:

tutor,

a guardian appointed by the prœtor Urbanus, Gai. Inst. 1, 184.—

Subst.: praetōrĭus, ii, m.

One who has been prœtor, an exprœtor, Cic. Att. 16, 7, 1.—

One of prœtorian rank, Plin. Ep. 1, 14, 5.—

Of or belonging to the proprœtor, proprœtorian:

domus deferebantur,

his official residence in a province, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 56, § 145:

exercitus,

Flor. 3, 19, 11.—

Of or belonging to a general: praetoria cohors, the cohort or body-guard attached to every general, a prœtorian cohort, Caes. B. G. 1, 40; cf.: praetoria cohors est dicta, quod a praetore non discedebat. Scipio enim Africanus primus fortissimum quemque delegit, qui ab eo in bello non discederent et cetero munere militiae vacarent et sesquiplex stipendium acciperent, Paul. ex Fest. p. 223 Müll.—Hence, derisively:

scortatorum cohors praetoria,

Cic. Cat. 2, 11, 24.—The emperors especially had cohorts as a body-guard:

castra,

the camp of the prœtorians, Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 67; Suet. Tib. 37; Tac. A. 4, 2:

cohortes navis,

the flag-ship, the admiral's ship, Liv. 26, 39:

puppis,

Flor. 2, 7, 7:

imperium,

the chief command, Cic. Div. 1, 32, 68: porta, the gate of the camp that opened from before the general's tent directly towards the enemy (opp. the porta decumana, which was on the side farthest from the enemy), Caes. B. C. 3, 94: praetoria porta in castris appellatur, quā exercitus in proelium educitur, quia initio praetores erant, qui nunc consules, et hi bella administrabant, quorum tabernaculum quoque dicebatur praetorium, Paul. ex Fest. p. 223 Müll.