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praetentura

praetentūra, ae, f. [praetendo],
  • a military guard on the boundaries of a province, a frontier-guard (post-class.): Mesopotamiae tractus praetenturis et stationibus servabantur agrariis, Amm.14, 3, 2.—
  • II A barricade, Amm.14, 2, 4.

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