πραιτώριον
praitōrion
Neuter noun · Of Latin origin
Of Latin origin; the prætorium or governor's courtroom (sometimes including the whole edifice and camp):—(common, judgment) hall (of judgment), palace, prætorium.
Outline
- "head-quarters" in a Roman camp, the tent of the commander-in-chief
- 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 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
- the camp of the Praetorian soldiers established by Tiberius