The proconsul Amachius had them seized, stretched them on dripping-pans, and ordered fires to be lighted under them.
The work was promptly taken in hand, and Julian confided the general supervision to his friend, the learned and noble Alipius of Antioch, formerly proconsul of Britain.
This first census was taken when Cyrenius was proconsul of Syria.
Then the proconsulseeing what was done believed, and was astonished at the teaching of the Lord.
Roman authority was still for a long time maintained in Gaul by the proconsul Syagrius.
Roman proconsul of Africa, Boniface, unjustly accused of treason by the Roman government, in his straits called in the aid of the Vandals.
In the work Ad Scapulam, who as Proconsul of Africa under Septimius Severus had persecuted the Christians with unsparing cruelty, he calls him to account for this with all earnestness and plainness of speech.
But since it has been shown by Waddington, on the basis of an examination of recently discovered inscriptions, that the proconsul of Asia, Statius Quadratus, mentioned in the report of the church of Smyrna, did not hold that office in A.
Few, if any, truly favored the procedure, which was in direct violation of all the principles of the Roman constitution--a greater violation even than the law which had conferred upon Pompey his extraordinary powers as proconsul of the seas.
As dictator he wasted his strength in attempting what, if successful, would have destroyed his country; but as proconsul he has saved her.
The proconsul drew from the province as much money as he wanted; thus he regarded it as his private property.
He secured them in the prison at Pergamus, to deliver them up to Junius Silanus, the proconsul of Asia, whose duty it was to punish them.
After having made his first campaign at the siege of Mitylene, Caesar served in the fleet of the proconsul P.
All that has been given to the proconsul or praetor contrary to the provisions of the present law, cannot become his by right of possession.
From that time began, between the proconsul and his young questor, a rivalry which, in time, was changed into violent hatred.
At length, exactly one year after Cyprian was first apprehended, Galerius Maximus, proconsul of Africa, received the Imperial warrant for the execution of the Christian teachers.
With modest confidence he pleaded the privilege of a citizen, in refusing to give any answer to some invidious and indeed illegal questions which the proconsul had proposed.
On the arrival of a new proconsul in the province the fortune of Cyprian appeared for some time to wear a still more favorable aspect.
When Valerian was consul for the third, and Gallienus for the fourth time, Paternus, proconsul of Africa, summoned Cyprian to appear in his private council-chamber.
Then very surely it penetrated through his brain that the proconsul had recognized him at the moment of Flora's drop into his arms, and had come to capture him--or to identify the Dancing Flora!
So with Agrippa out of reach, the proconsul may conspire all he pleases to alienate the princess from her Arab, in vain.
The legate hath sent couriers broadcast over the Empire to seek thee out, but the noble Flaccus, Proconsul of Egypt, though forewarned and required to deliver thee up, hath promised thee asylum in Alexandria.
Junia looked at him with frank amazement on her face; the proconsul was declaring, with passion, a thing which she could not believe possible.
The bluff countenance of the proconsul showed a little expectancy, but there was even less to be seen on the Jew's face that should betray his interpretation of the visit.
But the proconsularoused and cut it off in full voice.
There, alighting, the young man found himself deftly thrust into the crowd by Junia to avoid meeting the proconsul or Justin Classicus.
As he passed the spare old alabarch, the heavy purple proconsul and the exquisite Herod, not one of the guests there gathered but made successive comparisons between him and the others.
What do Roman citizens, arriving in Alexandria, and no proconsul to meet them?
The proconsul waved his hand and the soldier withdrew.
This was Vitellius, Proconsul of Syria and the shrewdest general on Caesar's list.
He was Flaccus Avillus, Proconsul of Egypt, finishing now his fourth year as viceroy over the Nile valley.
The proconsul made no answer, for his gray-brown eyes flickered suddenly as if a candle had been moved close by them.
The abrogation of the imperium of a proconsul had indeed been known,[373] but the deposition of a city magistrate during his year of office seems to have been a hitherto untried experiment.
The only position which he held now was that of proconsul of Numidia.
The verdict of the council was in favour of the genuineness of the king's appeal, and the proconsul granted the envoys permission to make their way to Rome.
Spurius Albinus had gone back to Africa as proconsul (p.
The former engaged the attention of Lucius Aurelius Orestes as consul in 126 and as proconsul in the following year.
When Agricola was proconsul of Britain, his rule was mild, and he took pains to win the confidence of the provincials.
Bracciolini's careful epilogue was that the proconsul had acted foolishly in not keeping the emeralds.
It stumbled, and our terrible proconsul was thus brought to death.
Perion surprised the galley of Demetrios while the proconsul slept at anchor in his own harbour of Quesiton.
The great proconsul laid an inconvenient mandate upon me," said Orestes.
All this while the cardinal and the proconsul had been appraising each other.
She waited in this place for a half-hour, just as the proconsul had commanded her, obeying him for the last time.
The proconsul began to chuckle as water pours from a jar, and the gold in his ears twinkled.
This was in the Women's Garden, where the proconsul sat with Melicent in a little domed pavilion of stone-work which was gilded with red gold and crowned with a cupola of alabaster.
As an asp leaps, the big and supple hands of the proconsul gripped Bracciolini's neck from behind, and silenced speech.
This venture was ill-fated, since, as the Free Companions were passing not far from Masillia, their vessel being at the time becalmed, they were attacked by three pagan galleys under the admiralty of the proconsul Demetrios.
The great proconsul has been removed from us in order that his splendour may enhance the glories of Elysium.
She came thus with bare feet into the Court of Stars, where the proconsul lay on the divan as though he had not ever moved from there.
Since the proconsul had no passport, he could not with safety endeavour to elude those officers of the Tribunal who must endorse the ship's passage at Piaja.
This dignity having veiled the obscurity and baseness of his birth, he was sent proconsul to Africa, where he died, after having obtained the honors of the triumph.
No governor of Canada was ever worse treated by the Canadian people; and yet no proconsul is entitled to more grateful remembrance in Canada.
The courage that sent the boy 'writer' into the deadly assault on Deeg sustained the old proconsul through the slow torture of the months of life remaining to him.
And an inscription, recently found at Delphi, shows that Gallio was proconsul in A.
Paul took his name from the proconsul Sergius Paulus (Acts xiii.
But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn aside the proconsul from the faith.
There he made, or improved, the acquaintance of Servius Sulpicius Galba, proconsul of Tarraconensian Spain in the later years of Nero.
After a term of further service as proconsul of Asia, he retired to a dignified and easy leisure.
Nichomachus, being brought before the proconsul as a christian, was ordered to sacrifice to the pagan idols.
Optimus, the proconsul of Asia, on hearing this, ordered the prisoner to be stretched upon a wheel, by which all his bones were broken, and then he was sent to be beheaded.
Cyprian was brought before theproconsul Aspasius Paturnus, who exiled him to a little city on the Lybian sea.
War was impossible; of freedom they had as much as their masters left to them, as much perhaps as was good for them[13] when Greece was so weak, when there was no power left in her which the slightest bidding of a proconsul could not upset.
But he should remember that it was a thing which no proconsul had ever asked before; their ancient privileges gave them the right of managing their own commonwealth as they thought good.
Still an Emperor and a proconsul less scrupulous than Trajan and Pliny might have made short work of the liberties of Apameia.
But the speeches of the Greek orator put on a tenfold interest when we come to compare them with the memorable correspondence which is luckily preserved to us between a Roman Emperor and a proconsul of Bithynia in Diôn’s own day.
We see also how things looked in the eyes of two official Romans, an Emperor and a proconsul who were among the best of their several classes, but whose very virtues laid them open to one special temptation.
We have the correspondence of Trajan himself with the younger Pliny when Pliny was proconsul of Bithynia.
The proconsul asks if an eranos, a benefit club, is to be allowed in Amisos.
It must have been beyond the power of any single proconsul in a peaceful time seriously to interfere with the liberties of Lykia.
No one else, proconsul or proprætor or procurator, who is not empowered to kill a soldier, has been given the privilege of wearing a sword.
The name proconsul was to belong not only to the two ex-consuls but also to the rest who had served as prætors or who at least held the rank of ex-prætors.
In the consulship of Marcus Æmilius with Statilius Taurus Tiberius and Germanicus acting as proconsul invaded Celtica and overran some parts of it.
From certain incidental allusions made by Aristides in his discourses, the bishop labours hard to prove that this Statius Quadratus was proconsul of Asia somewhere about A.
It is probable that the postscript was written many years after the event; and, under these circumstances, the writer may have mistaken the name of the proconsul at the time.
In the postscript to the Smyrnaean letter--an appendage of very doubtful authority--we are told that the martyrdom occurred when Statius Quadratus was proconsul of Asia.
It is far more probable that the writer has been slightly inaccurate as to the exact designation of the proconsul of Asia about the time of the martyrdom.
And yet his whole chronology rests on the supposition that the name of the proconsul is correctly given in this probably apocryphal addition to the Smyrnaean letter.
In another case we find the proconsul Sergius Paulus styled incorrectly Servillius Paullus, vol.
Aristides, he has tried to show that he probably became proconsul of Asia about A.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "proconsul" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bey; collector; governor; proconsul; provincial; viceroy
