The Senate, even while Crassus was alive, had carried the consulships for 53 by the most infamous corruption.
In spite of Caesar's victories, his most envenomed enemy, Domitius Ahenobarbus, had succeeded after all in carrying one of the consulships for the year 54.
With these it was not safe to venture on a conflict, and the consulships fell as the Lucca conference had ordered.
The consulships and the praetorships fell to the candidates whom the Senate supported.
Five consulships conducted with the same even tenor of conduct, and every part of his life being passed in a manner worthy of the consular dignity, rendered himself almost more venerable than the high office itself.
Dictatorships and consulships must be levelled to the ground, that the Roman commons may be able to raise their heads.
In one short period of twelve years, the Metelli could reckon seven consulships and five triumphs.
As he is generally two or three years out in his reckoning of the former, this proceeding has the curious result of persistently throwing some Consulships of the reigning Emperor into the reign of his predecessor.
Certainly, in the instances given above, Probus, Carus, and Diocletian held no Consulships till after they had been saluted as Emperors.
Footnote 16: The dates of the three consulships are, A.
After the death of her husband, the most powerful subject of Rome, she had remained at the head of the Anician family, and successively supplied, from her private fortune, the expense of the consulships of her three sons.
Domitian then carried a proposal that the consulships conferred by Vitellius should be cancelled, and that a state funeral should be held in honour of Flavius Sabinus.
In the censorship and in two of his consulships he had been Claudius' colleague.
They bade them proceed in their brave resolve, proceed with happy omens, and render the issue proportionate to the undertaking: thence to expectconsulships and triumphs, all rewards, all honours from them.
An inscription records the consulships of this year.
Of the six consulships which he held, only one was ordinary; and that he obtained by the cession and interest of his brother.
Jerome, 'as so often happens with him, has blundered somewhat in transferring to his complicated era, the Consulships by which Suetonius would have dated.
It is easy to see how a mistake might have occurred in substituting the first of the four successive Consulships of Cinna (87 B.
It was to do such works as these, it seems, that he gave us all our long training; he will return home, and boast of these great performances of his consulships to the people.
Let the issue of this undertaking be even as the beginning, and ye shall have from us consulships and triumph, yea, and all honours that ye can desire.
Catullus himself (cxiii) testifies to what is known from other sources, the extreme laxity with which the marriage tie was regarded in the interval between 'the first and second consulships of Pompey.
Jerome, 'as so often happens with him, has blundered somewhat in transferring to his complicated era the Consulships by which Suetonius would have dated.
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