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Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, CASTRA PRAETORIA (search)
CASTRA PRAETORIA * the barracks of the praetorian guard, built by Tiberius at the instigation of Sejanus in 21-23 A.D. when these troops were quartered permanently within the city (Suet. Tib. 37; Tac. Ann. iv. 2; Cass. Dio lvii. 9. 6; Schol. Iuv. x. 95). They were in the extreme north- eastern part of Rome, just beyond the inhabited district (Plin. NH iii. 67 ; Suet. Nero 48; Not. Reg. VI), about 500 metres east of the agger, on a site that was one of the highest in Rome (59-60 metres above sea-level), and commanded both the city and the roads leading to the east and north-east. The camp was constructed on the usual Roman model, forming a rectangle 440 metres long and 380 wide, with rounded corners. The longer axis, the cardo maximus, ran nearly north and south, and at its ends, in the middle of the shorter sides, were the porta praetoria and the porta decumana. It is not certain, however, whether the porta praetoria was on the north side or the south (HJ 387-388 nort