Macrobius who held, among other high offices, the proconsulship of. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
What did he say at the time, or since, about the disaster that was L. Paul "Jerry" Bremer's proconsulship?. From Wordnik.com. [Critic Or Cheerleader: The Definitive McCain Iraq Timeline] Reference
Near the beginning of his proconsulship, Bremer was essentially reporting to Donald Rumsfeld and co. in the Pentagon. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Is Teheran Running America’s Iraq Policy?] Reference
As consul, he cannot be made to answer for any action until his consulship and any proconsulship which follows are over and he is once more a privatus. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
What about “the inevitable follow-up: major occupation forces in Iraq for years to come and a very expensive and complex American proconsulship in Baghdad”?. From Wordnik.com. [Barack Obama and the Powell Doctrine] Reference
His argument against proceeding to Baghdad after liberating Kuwait was “the inevitable follow-up: major occupation forces in Iraq for years to come and a very expensive and complex American proconsulship in Baghdad”. From Wordnik.com. [Barack Obama and the Powell Doctrine] Reference
Polycarp was martyred during the proconsulship of Statius Quadratus. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"] Reference
From Eusebius, V, xvi, 7, we learn that this was in the proconsulship of Gratus. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
"Chronologie", arguing from the same data, came to the conclusion that Quadratus 'proconsulship fell in 165-66. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
The proconsulship commonly terminated in a year; but an individual might be retained in the office for five or six years. From Wordnik.com. [The Ignatian Epistles Entirely Spurious A Reply to the Right Rev. Dr. Lightfoot] Reference
He must have arrived in Syria tolerably early in the spring but his operations during the first year of his proconsulship were unimportant. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 6. (of 7): Parthia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference
C. Licinius Crassus, who had been Paulus 'colleague in the consulship and was at the time in command of Gaul, his proconsulship having been extended. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Vol. VI] Reference
He was accused of malversation in his proconsulship of Asia, B.C. 99, convicted by the judices, who at that time were taken from the Equites, and retired to. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Lives, Volume II] Reference
He had gained much credit by his proconsulship in Asia, and had since by an honourable leisure wiped out the blot which stained the activity of his former years. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference
You know that at the close of the proconsulship in Gaul, there breaks out a great civil war; this lasts, with brief interruptions and pauses, until the battle of Actium. From Wordnik.com. [Characters and events of Roman History] Reference
Emperor Lucius Verus in the consulship; and it would appear that about A.D. 169 -- on the ground of exceptional ability and influence -- he was appointed to the proconsulship of Asia. From Wordnik.com. [The Ignatian Epistles Entirely Spurious A Reply to the Right Rev. Dr. Lightfoot] Reference
Even if the later and Western mode of reckoning from the January after accession is used, the year 157 can be reconciled with the proconsulship of Quadratus in 155, if we remember that. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
Schmid's system, therefore, disappears, and Waddington's, in spite of some very real difficulties (Quadratus 'proconsulship shows a tendency to slip a year out of place), is in possession. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
He supported the proposal that Cæsar should be called upon to surrender his army, but coupled with it the demand that Pompey also should be required to give up his troops and his proconsulship. From Wordnik.com. [The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature] Reference
His political future, and his rights as a citizen, depended upon his success in blocking the efforts of the senate to take his provinces from him before the end of the year, when he could step from the proconsulship to the consulship. From Wordnik.com. [The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature] Reference
Minor, with the assistance of newly-discovered inscriptions, has decided that Statius Quadratus was proconsul in A.D. 154-155, and if Polycarp was martyred during his proconsulship it would follow that his death must have taken place in one of those years. From Wordnik.com. [A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot's Essays] Reference
For example, ancient historians tell of Cato that, when he returned in triumph from his proconsulship in Spain, he boasted of having drunk on the voyage the same wine as his rowers; which certainly was not, as we should say now, either Bordeaux or Champagne!. From Wordnik.com. [Characters and events of Roman History] Reference
After him Ampelius succeeded to the government of the city; he also was a man addicted to pleasure, a native of Antioch, and one who from having been master of the offices was twice promoted to a proconsulship, and sometime afterwards to that supreme rank, the prefecture. From Wordnik.com. [The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens] Reference
He conceives his occupation to be more honorable than the proconsulship of a province, and his name, he pleases himself with believing, is familiar to more ears than any man's, save the Emperor's, and has been known in Rome for a longer period than any other person's living, excepting only the head of the Senate, the venerable Tacitus. From Wordnik.com. [Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century] Reference
I don't expect to improve much on the proconsulship of my father. ". From Wordnik.com. [Roads from Rome] Reference
He was apprehended by Herodes ... in the proconsulship of Statius Quadratus etc. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
In the same year he was deprived of his proconsulship and his property confiscated; subsequently (the chronology is obscure, see Mommsen. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
A different man; Cæsar would probably have had to seek elsewhere a brilliant proconsulship and things Gallic would have for ever escaped his energy. From Wordnik.com. [Characters and events of Roman History] Reference
Quadratus, Statius, date of proconsulship, 115. From Wordnik.com. [A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot's Essays] Reference
Quadratus, Statius, the Asiatic proconsulship of, 103 sq. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"] Reference
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