The Office of Pretorian Prefect

The office of pretorian prefect had, over the years, evolved well beyond simply being the captain of the imperial bodyguard. Lucius seganus had been the first to assume administrative and political functions. When diocletian took power, the pretorians were reformed once more, this time reduced to just serving as the local city garrison of rome. But the office was maintained for, i guess, sentimental reasons. And Diocletian placed the prefect squarely at the top of his new bureaucracy. In effect, the prefect became a vice emperor, and it was his job to make sure that the vast new bureaucracy, including the hundreds of staffers that he personally employed, ran