Praefectus
Praefectus a title given to various officials, appointed, not directly by the people, but by the delegation of some magistrate, to discharge special functions. Hence the praefectus was not included in the lists of magistrates, although in certain cases he enjoyed the insignia of a magistrate. The most important are as follows.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.