Ah, okay... I was confused by who they were meant to be, a lot of what you were saying seemed to paint them as Praetorians, so I assumed you meant Praetor as a shortened form of that, when a Praetor is actually some form of Magistrate (I'm not sure about the specifics... I can't remember too much about the minutiae of the Roman political system). I'd be surprised if what you remember were actual political procedure (Rome was deeply patriarchal, unsurprisingly), but I've been surprised before. Not quite sure how I'd search for it either.
