Even amidst the cares of the consulship he found time for commenting on the Categories of Aristotle.
The regents showed themselves satisfied; as early as the 1st of August 702 Pompeius resigned his dictatorship, and shared the consulship with his client Metellus Scipio.
The consulship was, at least for the next year, entrusted to safe hands.
He approved in principle the proposal of Marcellus, in so far as he too declared that he would not allow Caesar directly to attach the consulship to the pro-consulship.
The plebeians who most wanted relief cared so little for having the consulship opened to the richer men of their estate that they would readily have dropped the bill concerning it, lest a demand should endanger their own desires.
It was altogether from him that the honors of the consulship were to be derogated.
Or, supposing the case reversed and the bill relating to the consulship brought forward alone, the debtors and the homeless citizens would have given the bill too little help with hands or hearts to secure its passage as a law.
For some ten years the law regarding the consulship was observed, after which time it was occasionally[23] violated, but can still be called a success.
During the first consulship of Caius Julius Cæsar, he brought forward an agrarian[1] bill at the instigation of his confederates.
Yet he was preferred to the consulship no less by the nobles than the common people for the good of the city; and both parties jointly assisted his promotion, for the following reasons.
From the reign of Carus to the sixth consulship of Honorius, there was an interval of one hundred and twenty years, during which the emperors were always absent from Rome on the first day of January.
Footnote 64: Such respect was still entertained for the venerable names of the commonwealth, that the public was surprised and scandalized to hear Taurus summoned as a criminal under the consulship of Taurus.
This exalted idea of the consulshipis borrowed from an oration (iii.
The Romans had elected to the consulship two of their most distinguished men.
Claudius Marcellus, who proposed to send a successor to Cæsar, on the plea that the war in Gaul was finished, and to deprive him of the privilege of becoming a candidate for the Consulship in his absence.
Lepidus was to receive theConsulship for the following year, with the charge of Italy.
Consulship for the following year, and who threatened to deprive Cæsar of his provinces and armies.
Flaccus, it will be recollected, had proposed in his consulship to give the Roman franchise to the Italian allies, and it was now determined to bring forward a similar measure.
As soon as Cæsar had entered upon his Consulship he proposed an agrarian law for the division of the rich Campanian land.
Abolition Of The Schools Of Athens, And The Consulship Of Rome.
In the xviiith year after the consulship of Basilius, according to the reckoning of Marcellinus, Victor, Marius, &c.
About the same time that Pythagoras first invented the appellation of philosopher, liberty and the consulship were founded at Rome by the elder Brutus.
Marcellinus, a domestic of Justinian, under whose ivth consulship (A.
Justinian suppressed the schools of Athens and the consulship of Rome, which had given so many sages and heroes to mankind.
Pompeius on his return from Spain was barred on technical grounds from the triumph and the consulship which he demanded.
The alliance gave Pompeius the land allotments he required for his soldiers, and to Cæsar the consulship followed by a prolonged governorship of Gaul.
He became a partisan of Cæsar in the struggle with Pompey, and to this he owed the pro-consulship of Numidia, on the proceeds of which he retired into leisured ease.
The Roman consulship was also abolished by Justinian in 541; but this office, the title of which admonished the Romans of their ancient freedom, still lived in the minds of the people.
If he remained away a year, who could tell whether his chance for the Consulship might not be irretrievably compromised?
During the agitation of the first triumvirate, he composed the De Republica and De Legibus, and during Caesar's dictatorship and the consulship of Antony, he matured the great works of his old age.
Praises of himself, from the poem on his consulship (Div.
With testimonies like these before them, and the knowledge that he had been raised to the consulship (143) and to the confidential friendship of two emperors, scholars had formed a high estimate of his genius.
We have mentioned his poem on Marius and those on his consulship and times, which pleased himself best and drew forth from others the greatest ridicule.
Like the volume to Atticus, it consists of sixteen books, extending from the year after his consulship until that of his death.
Even for Cicero to obtain a seat in the college of augurs was no easy task, although he had already won his way to the consulship and been hailed as the saviour of his country.
Cicero went so far as to write some short commentarii on his consulship in Greek, and perhaps in Latin also; but they were not edited until after his death, and do not deserve the name of histories.
The fourth Eclogue, addressed to Pollio, and written in the year of his consulship (40 B.
The latest date mentioned in his Roman History is the consulship of Vinicius, 30 A.
He was a man of great influence, and was even raised to the consulshipby Domitian, who had appointed him tutor of his grandnephews.
Aurelius Victor wrote a short history of the emperors (Caesares) from the time of Augustus to the tenthconsulship of Constantius and Julian, i.
In it he foretells the various fortunes of the book, and at the end he gives his age, saying that he has seen four times eleven Decembers in the year of the consulship of Lepidus and Lollius.
Rome, and soon formed with Pompey and Crassus the agreement known as the first triumvirate, by which he was assured of the consulship in 59 B.
But to me the opposite seems right, for by as much as the entire state is more important than the consulship or the praetorship, with so much greater care ought the former to be administered than these latter to be sought.
In his consulship the conspiracy of Catiline occurred, which Cicero suppressed with relentless vigor, although it was supposed to be favored by some of the most powerful men in Rome, including Crassus and Caesar.
He is said to have been an informer (delator) under Nero, but rose to the consulship in 68 A.
But in one poem[33] he refers to Pompey's second consulship (55 B.
He held all the regular offices, attaining the consulship in 57 A.
That the same cause precluded Titus Manlius, besides that he had refused a consulship when offered to him, and would refuse it.
With this inscription (though neither consulshipnor triumph were added) the statue of Publius Scipio Nasica would be sufficiently honoured and dignified.
The consulship was conferred on Publius Scipio, that it might appear that the honour had only been delayed, and not refused to a person of such character.
In addition to all these recommendations, theconsulship enabled him to acquire military glory.
The expressions which escaped him from time to time plainly showed that his ambition was not yet satisfied, and that the Consulship was only a state of probation preliminary to the complete establishment of monarchy.
Thus the Consulship for life was nothing but an Empire in disguise, the usufruct of which could not long satisfy the First Consul's ambition.
It should be recollected that we were now in the year which saw the Consulship for life established, and which, consequently, gave presage of the Empire.
A strong majority were of opinion that Bonaparte should not only be invested with the Consulship for life, but that he should be empowered to nominate his successor.
After the vote for adding a second ten years to the duration of Bonaparte's Consulship he created, on the 19th of May, the order of the Legion of Honour.
It cannot be denied that France hailed, almost with unanimous voice, Bonaparte's accession to the Consulship as a blessing of Providence.
A considerable number of the Roman tiles are inscribed with the names of the consuls of the current year in which they were made, presenting a long and interesting series, from the consulship of L.
He had given up his consulship in Valence, and sacrificed his diplomatic prospects to live near Zephirine (also known as Zizine) in Angouleme.
Hautoy came to Angouleme in 1804, on his way to his consulship at Valence, he made the acquaintance of Mme.
He tells Marius that it would be soon enough for him to stand for the consulship in twenty-three years' time, the legitimate age for the consulship being forty-three.
In the mean time he was informed, by letters from Rome, that the province of Numidia was assigned to Marius, of whose election to the consulship he had already heard.
This intelligence it was that incited the feelings of the citizens to give the consulship to Marcus Tullius Cicero.
The people, at that time, still disposed of[184] other civil offices, but the nobility transmitted the consulship from hand to hand among themselves.
After his consulship he was accused and condemned by the Mamilian law (c.
Catiline, having made these arrangements, still canvassed for the consulship for the following year; hoping that, if he should be elected, he would easily manage Antonius according to his pleasure.
Immediately on his return home he became a candidate for theConsulship for the year 65[2].
He means that he has preserved the state for an unlimited period, and that during that period the recollection of his consulship will last; the two will go together, hence 'eandem.
Thus prepared, he again stood for the Consulship for the year 62; his intention being to bring about a general rising if he should be once more defeated.
The trial had, however, been postponed long enough to prevent him from standing for the Consulship for the year 64.
In his sixth consulship he crushed the insurrection of Sâturnînus and Glaucia.
The second consulship of Trajan (when he was also Emperor) was, after the reckoning of Tacitus, A.
What he will do in a second consulship I dare not say.
And so began the last consulshipof the Free Republic.
Gracchus and the first consulship of Crassus and Pompey (B.
Latatius Catulus (the colleague of Marius in his consulship of the year 102 B.
The age of persons was reckoned by naming the Consulship in which they were born; the period of which was Known by reference to the 'Fasti Consulares.
A second consulship was also allotted him, to commence at the expiration of the fourth year.
The Egyptian government was too weak to guard its own trade; and Lentulus in his consulship put the Ptolemaic eagle and thunderbolt on his coins, to show that he had exercised an act of sovereignty.
When the commonwealth had been thus ordered according to their pleasure, the consulship was to have been restored to Sylla and Autronius.
Quintus Tubero informs us, that in all the wills he had signed, from the time of his first consulshipto the breaking out of the civil war, Cneius Pompey was appointed his heir, and that this had been publicly notified to the army.
In his first consulship he purloined from the Capitol three thousand pounds' weight of gold, and substituted for it the same quantity of gilt brass.
