prō-praetor, ōris, m. (also prōprae-tōre or prō praetōre, indecl.),
I a magistrate in the times of the republic , who , after having administered the praetorship one year in Rome , was sent in the following year as praetor to a province where there was no army , a propraetor (class.).—Form propraetor: cum bella a propraetoribus administrantur, Cic. Div. 2, 36, 76.—Form pro praetore, Sall. J. 103, 4: prorogatum Tubulo est, ut pro praetore in Etruriam succederet Calpurnio, Liv. 27, 22, 5.—
II One who administers the praetorship of a province in the absence of the praetor : Aulo fratre in castris pro praetore relicto, Sall. J. 36, 4: quem pro praetore in castris relictum supra diximus, id. ib. 37, 3; Liv. 10, 25, 11; 29, 6, 9; Tac. A. 2, 66 al.; Caes. B. G. 1, 21.