Of utmost consequence is it that the body's germ consumer-its pretorian guard-be always armed with vitality ready to vanquish every intruding hostile germ.
"Civics and Health"
William H. Allen
It was left, amid the general effeminate cowardice, for a tribune of a pretorian cohort to tell Nero to his face that he loathed him as a murderer and an incendiary.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
Yes, here, in this France, which is the initiatress of the world, in this land of the tribune and the press, in this birthplace of human thought, yes, the time may come when the sword will rule, when you, inviolable legislators, will be collared by corporals, when our glorious regiments will transform themselves, for the profit of one man and to the shame of the nation, into gold-laced hordes and pretorian bands, when the sword of France will become a thing that strikes from behind, like the dagger of a hired assassin, when the life-blood of the first city in the world, done to death, will splash the gold epaulettes of your generals!"
"Napoleon the Little"
Victor Hugo