A similar jurisdiction in civil cases was acquired by him not later than the time of Septimius Severus.
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From the time of Alexander Severus the post was open to senators also, and if an equestrian was appointed he was at the same time raised to the senate.
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Jovinus fled for his life, but was besieged and captured in Valentia (Valence, Drôme) and taken to Narbo (Narbonne), where Caius Posthumus Dardanus, the praetorian prefect (governor) in Gaul, who had remained loyal to Honorius, had him executed.
Marcus Aurelius Cleander (fl. 2nd century), Roman freedman from Phrygia, favourite and praetorian prefect of Emperor Commodus
Virius Nicomachus Flavianus (334-394), praetorian prefect, supporter of Eugenius
While Simplicius still lived, the praetorian prefect, Caecina Decius Maximus Basilius, called together the Roman Senate, Roman clergy, and the leading local bishops in the Imperial Mausoleum.
In 543, he succeeded Theodotus as praetorian prefect of the East, a post he held until 546.
Caelius Aconius Probianus (fl. 461–471), a praetorian prefect and consul
Prior to becoming Praetorian prefect, Petronius had served as governor of the Egypt province from 92 until 93.
A pagan and close friend of Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, he was Praetorian prefect of Italy in 390–392 and, under usurper Eugenius (392–394), again praetorian prefect (393–394) and consul (394, recognized only within Eugenius' territory).