In the very beginning, the highest elected magistrates were two praetors.

最开始时，得票最高的行政长官是两位执政官。

In descending order of importance, the Centuriate Assembly, which elected consuls and praetors.

按照重要性降序排列，依次是，百人团会议选举执政官和司法官。

A second Roman expedition led by praetor Varinius, was ambushed while the officer bathed.

第二支罗马远征队由执政官瓦力乌尼思率领，这支队伍在执政官洗澡时被伏击。

For example, Magistrates who had imperium, that means consuls and praetors, were elected by the Centuriate Assembly.

例如有统治权的裁判官，也即是执政官和裁判官是百人团会议选举出来的。

A praetor, therefore, was appointed to administer it in his stead.

因此，任命了一位执政官来代替他管理它。

Unconcerned, praetor Claudius Glaber took an army of three thousand men to the rebel's refuge at Mount Vesuvius, and blocked off the only passage up the mountain.

执政官克劳狄斯·格拉伯尔若无其事地带领3000名士兵，来到位于维苏威山的叛党营地，并封锁了上山的唯一通道。

Rather Rome was a republic throughout these centuries, one primarily ruled by the Senate  and a number of magistrates such as the consuls, aediles, praetors and quaestors who were elected  for set terms.

相反，罗马在这几个世纪中一直是一个共和国，主要由元老院和一些地方法官统治， 例如执政官、总督、行政长官和财务官，这些法官是按规定任期选举产生的。

Vespasian was possibly serving as praetor when in January 41 AD the Praetorian  Guard, with the connivance of many senators and court officials, murdered Caligula and  placed his uncle, Claudius on the throne.

公元 41 年 1 月，禁卫军在许多元老和法庭官员的纵容下谋杀了卡利古拉，并扶植他的叔叔克劳狄斯登上王位，当时韦斯帕芗可能担任执政官。

Therefore, he was able to gain  election as a praetor in either 39 or 40 AD, the second seniormostsenior most magistracy in  the Roman political world, junior only to the office of consul and obviously the emperor  himself.

因此，他能够在公元 39 或 40 年当选为执政官，这是罗马政坛第二高级别的行政长官，地位仅次于执政官， 显然仅次于皇帝本人。