Prefect vs Procurator - What's the difference?
prefect | procurator |
An official of Ancient Rome who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.
The head of a department in France.
A school pupil in a position of power over other pupils.
A commander.
A tax collector.
An agent or attorney.
A legal officer who both investigates and prosecutes crimes, found in some inquisitorial legal systems, particularly communist or formerly communist states – see (public procurator)
(lb) The governor of a small imperial province.
As nouns the difference between prefect and procurator
is that prefect is an official of Ancient Rome who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc while procurator is a tax collector.prefect
English
(wikipedia prefect)Alternative forms
* (old-fashioned) * praefectNoun
(en noun)- the prefect''' of the aqueducts; the '''prefect''' of a camp, of a fleet, of the city guard, or of provisions; the pretorian '''prefect , who was commander of the troops guarding the emperor's person
