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Definition of Proconsuls
1. proconsul [n] - See also: proconsul
Lexicographical Neighbors of Proconsuls
Literary usage of Proconsuls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, John Bagnell Bury (1897)
"In this class the proconsuls of Asia, Achaia, and Africa claimed a pre-eminence,
... [The proconsuls of Asia and Africa had precedence of all the other ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1854)
"Of these, three were governed by proconsuls, thirty-seven by consulars, ...
But they were all (excepting only the proconsuls) alike included in the class of ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. by Edward Gibbon (1811)
"Of these, three were governed by proconsuls, thirty-seven by consulars, ...
But they were all (excepting , only the proconsuls) alike included in the class ..."
4. A History of the French Revolution by Henry Morse Stephens (1891)
"The provinces in 1792—The institution of deputies on mission—Its development—The
increase of their power—The proconsuls and their system of government by ..."
5. The History of Roman Law from the Text of Ortolan's Histoire de la by Joseph-Louis-Elzéar Ortolan (1871)
"proconsuls. 228. At the period of its history when Rome had but a single enemy
to contend with, a single army sufficed for its purpose, and two consuls were ..."
6. Roman Antiquities by Alexander Adam, John Richardson Major (1835)
"The provinces to which proconsuls were sent, ... They had the same badges of
authority as the proconsuls had formerly ; but they had only a civil power ..."
7. Romæ Antiquæ Notitia: Or the Antiquities of Rome : in Two Parts ; to which by Basil Kennett (1822)
"THE chief of the provincial officers were the proconsuls. Whether the word ought
to be written Proconsul, and declined, or Pro- consule, ..."
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