regent Copy link • regent: procurator regni, Caes. B. C. 3, 112, ad fin.: f. -trix. Cic.: as it were r. of the commonwealth, quasi tutor ac procurator reipublicae, Cic. Rep. 2, 29: the king had left the Roman people r. for his son, rex tutorem (guardian) populum Romanum filio reliquisset, Val. Max. 6, 6, 1: to govern the kingdom of a minor under the title of r., tutorio nomine regnum pupilli administrare, Just. 30, 3.