A consul in command of the army.
An annually-elected curule magistrate, subordinate to the consuls in provincial administration, and who performed some of their duties; numbering initially only one, later two (either of the praetor urbānus (“urban praetor”) or the praetor peregrīnus (“peregrine praetor”)), and eventually eighteen.
A high civic or administrative official, especially a chief magistrate or mayor. Sometimes used as a title.
The title of the chief magistrate, the mayor, and/or the podestà in Palermo, in Verona, and in various other parts of 17th- and 18th-century Italy.
A high military officer in a warlike nation.
A local ruler or bandit leader usually where the government is weak.