Thus his proconsulate is perhaps the purest and most honorable passage in his life. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
Afar, half hidden in lingering twilight, Jerusalem of the Herodian kings and the Roman proconsulate crouched on its hills. From Wordnik.com. [There Will Be Time]
Julius Caesar decided he didn't want to be criminally prosecuted at the end of his proconsulate, so he simply overthrew the whole kit and caboodle and became a dictator. From Wordnik.com. [Saying it's "time for reflection, not retribution," Obama rejects prosecuting CIA agents for interrogations.] Reference
I granted him this request also and gave him a letter with which he set off to Carthage, where Lollianus Avitus, the term of his proconsulate having neariy expired, was awaiting your arrival, Maximus. From Wordnik.com. [The Defense] Reference
The seventeenth is written during the proconsulate of Scipio. From Wordnik.com. [The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura] Reference
The proconsulate of the seas was to be vested in the same person for three years. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson] Reference
Included later in the proconsulate it received from Augustus the title of colony. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
But Alencon proved a traitor; and during the proconsulate of Farnese, Duke of Parma, the. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Modern history] Reference
Gallic proconsulate, has recorded the ease and swiftness with which the work was written. From Wordnik.com. [Latin Literature] Reference
The bishops of Thabraca, who met with those of the proconsulate, were: Victoricus, at the Council of. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
Hébert, Chaumette, and Collot, returned from a terrible proconsulate, wishing to govern by severities. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on the French Revolution] Reference
For one thing, Lord Cromer had laid down his proconsulate in 1907 and had been succeeded by Sir Eldon Gorst. From Wordnik.com. [The New World of Islam] Reference
Within two or three years from his proconsulate he was raised to the imperial throne, and is known as Antoninus Pius. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"] Reference
Carthage, 411; and Pariator, who signed the letter addressed in 646 by the council of the proconsulate to the Patriarch Paul of. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
A.D. As ten to thirteen years usually elapsed between tenure of the consulate and proconsulate, Lollianus Avitus may have been proconsul. From Wordnik.com. [The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura] Reference
In order to root out this dreadful evil, Gabinius, the tribune of the people, proposed a law, to form, what he called, the proconsulate of the seas. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson] Reference
Roman Africa at this period consisted of three provinces: (1) the province of Africa proper, which comprised the proconsulate, Byzacena and Tripoli; (2). From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
Asia Minor; imperial visits to, 98; the proconsulate of, 293; the proconsular fasti of, 103 sq, 115, 121, 223, 295 n; its connexion with Southern Gaul, 105, 252. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"] Reference
As the interval between holding the consulate and the proconsulate was from ten to thirteen years, this fragment may be dated, if not before 166, at any rate before 169 A.D. From Wordnik.com. [The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura] Reference
I granted him this request also and gave him a letter with which he set off to Carthage, where Lollianus Avitus, the term of his proconsulate having nearly expired, was awaiting your arrival, Maximus. From Wordnik.com. [The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura] Reference
Nevertheless, all who saw M. Gambetta during his proconsulate at Tours will remember with what a splendid energy he worked, how sincerely hopeful he was, and -- this must not be forgotten -- how uniformly generous and genial. From Wordnik.com. [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference
Citizen Barthélemy had been established, on the part of the new republic, at Basle, -- where, with his proconsulate of Switzerland and the adjacent parts of Germany, he was appointed as a sort of factor to deal in the degradation of the crowned heads of Europe. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)] Reference
"There's a limit to the upkeep allowance for a proconsulate, and we can't pay five hundred useless servants. From Wordnik.com. [A Slave is a Slave] Reference
Tertullian also bears witness to this wickedness: “In Africa they openly sacrificed infants to Saturn, even down to the time of the proconsulate of. From Wordnik.com. [A Dissertation on Divine Justice] Reference
Again, as M. Waddington, the supreme authority on the subject, points out, the normal interval between the consulship and the proconsulate of Asia during Augustus’s reign was five or six years. From Wordnik.com. [Was Christ Born in Bethlehem?] Reference
During the proconsulate of Baudot at Toulouse "almost all the patriots of 1789 were excluded from the popular club they had founded; an immense number were admitted whose patriotism reached only as far back as the 10th of. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution - Volume 2] Reference
His proconsulate in Cilicia in 51 and 50. From Wordnik.com. [Latin Literature] Reference
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