In the most determined and persistent way he carried it out in the West; then next in proconsular Africa which had so energetically protested in the times of Innocent and Cœlestine against Romish pretensions.
The church of proconsular Africa, with Carthage for its capital, stood in close connection with Rome.
Proconsular Africa became the centre of its Western propaganda; and thence it spread into Italy and Spain.
As Imperator he had the command of the Roman armies; and the tribunitian and proconsular powers which the Senate conferred upon him made him absolute master of the state.
Soon after his accession to the empire he married his daughter Faustina to Marcus Aurelius, procured for him the tribunitian and proconsular power from the Senate, and made him his associate in the labors of the government.
As his Proconsular power already extended over all the coasts and islands of the Mediterranean in virtue of the Gabinian law, this new measure virtually placed almost the whole of the Roman dominions in his hands.
Ephesus has been thus described: "It had been one of the early Greek colonies, later the capital of Ionia, and in Paul's day it was by far the largest and busiest of all the cities of proconsular Asia.
The speech of Demetrius perhaps exaggerates the effects of Paul's work, but it should be remembered that the gospel took firm hold of proconsular Asia from a very early period.
Then broadcast on the same wavelength; announce that anybody claiming sanctuary at the Proconsular Palace will be taken in and protected.
Floodlights threw a white dazzle from the top of the Proconsular Palace and from the tops of the four buildings around it that Imperial troops had cleared and occupied, and from contragravity vehicles above.
Vann Shatrak, who was now commanding his battle-line unit by screen from theProconsular Palace, began fretting.
This was Obray of Erskyll's first proconsular appointment, it was due to family influence, and it was a mistake.
They were all crowded into one of the executive conference-rooms at the Proconsular Palace, the batteries of communication and recording equipment incongruously functional among the gold-encrusted luxury of the original Masterly furnishings.
And broadcast an announcement that any of the Masterly class may find asylum here at the Proconsular Palace.
Finding a suitable building for the Proconsular Palace would present difficulties.
He was also concerned about finding a suitable building for a proconsular palace; the business of the Empire on Aditya could not be conducted long from shipboard.
It came practically as a thunderbolt when Khreggor Chmidd screened the ship the next afternoon to report that a Proconsular Palace had been found, and would be ready for occupancy in a day or so.
There were entertainments at the new Proconsular Palace for the Masterly residents of Zeggensburg, and Erskyll and his staff were entertained at Masterly palaces.
Nobody remains longer than that on a first Proconsular appointment.
For instance, there's this thing about finding a proconsular palace.
That would mean, no doubt, that the Empress Eulalie would be hanging over Zeggensburg, serving asProconsular Palace, for the next year or so.
Paul's desire was to preach the word throughout the Roman proconsular province of Asia, which comprised Phrygia, and the maritime districts of Mysia, Lydia and Caria.
The lands of Mysia, Lydia, Caria, and a part of Phrygia, were known as Proconsular Asia, as they formed the province of Asia under the Roman government.
Ephesus was the metropolis of Proconsular Asia, and may be regarded as the third capital of Christianity, as Jerusalem had been its birthplace, and Antioch the centre of its foreign missions.
The Seven Churches of Asia= were all located in Proconsular Asia, in the immediate neighborhood of Ephesus.
Near the close of his imprisonment he expressed an expectation of speedily visiting the churches of Proconsular Asia, especially that at Colosse (Philem.
He went to Africa with proconsular authority, and of course fleeced the Africans.
The Consuls remained at home, and Generals were sent out with proconsular authority.
Verres went in due course to Sicily with proconsular or proprætorial authority, having the government assigned to him for twelve months.
If the proconsular thief, when he had made his bag, would divide the spoil with some semblance of equity among his brethren, nothing could be more convenient.
It was there that he learned that a certain distance had been prescribed; but it seems that he had already heard that the Proconsular Governor of the island would not receive him, fearing Cæsar.
A proconsular robber did not rob only for himself; he robbed more or less for all Rome.
The Governors of the provinces, Proconsuls, or Proprætors with proconsular authority, always combined military with civil authority.
Beyond its pecuniary losses, its sufferings had been excruciating; but not till the end had come of a Governor's proconsular authority could the almost hopeless chance of a criminal accusation against the tyrant be attempted.
Episcopal churches were closely planted along the banks of the Nile, on the sea-coast of Africa, in the proconsular Asia, and through the southern provinces of Italy.
Footnote 80: We have an original life of Cyprian by the deacon Pontius, the companion of his exile, and the spectator of his death; and we likewise possess the ancient proconsular acts of his martyrdom.
But he had missed his real object; the proconsular title, which he had a right to bear in all the provinces, remained an empty name, so long as he had not troops of his own at his disposal.
This, it is said, continued for the space of two years, so that all they who dwelt in the proconsular Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both jews and greeks.
At a later time Paul established the truth in Ephesus, the chief city of Proconsular Asia.
Paul went to Ephesus, which at that time was the chief capital of proconsular Asia, a leading mart of heathen idolatry, and in which was situated one of the seven wonders of the ancient world--the temple of Diana.
In discussing the fate of these proconsular officials we feel now the absurdity of mixing together in the same debate the name of Piso and Gabinius with that of Cæsar.
The historians tell us that Pompey had lent a legion to Cæsar, thus giving us an indication of the singular terms on which legions were held by the proconsular officers who commanded them.
Nevertheless, we are told that Cicero, in this case, abused his proconsular authority in favor of Brutus.
But now there came to be pickings--savings out of his own proconsular expenses--to part with which at the last moment was too hard upon them.
I grieve to say a Roman knight was found There, Sergius Paulus, to lend countenance-- A name proconsular so much defiled!
His father was a centurion in the proconsulartroops of Africa, and he was born at Carthage about the year 160.
The first who suffered at Carthage were twelve persons, commonly called the Scillitan Martyrs, probably because they were of Scillita, a town of the proconsular Africa.
The message ended by saying that the Proconsular Procurator, who came by the same carriages, would preside at the process.
But you have yourselves said that the followers of Maximianus had feet swift to shed blood, as is testified by the sentence of your general Council, so often quoted in the records of the proconsular province and of the state.
That is, theproconsular province of Africa, or Africa Zeugitana, answering to the northern part of the territory of Tunis.
For if you say that you committed no such deeds, we simply read to you the records of the proconsular province and the state.
Do we meet with any traces of it in the cities of the Lycus, or in proconsular Asia generally, which would justify the opinion that it might make its influence felt in the Christian communities of that district?
Politically speaking, the three cities with the rest of the Cibyratic union belonged at this time to Asia, the proconsular province[61].
In the inscriptions of proconsular Asia it is found[708]; but no stress can be laid on this coincidence, for its occurrence as a proper name was doubtless coextensive with the use of the Greek language.
A copy of his letters would probably be sent to Laodicea, as a principal centre of Christianity in Proconsular Asia, which is among the provinces mentioned in the address of the First Epistle.
In other words, this Gospel indicates the spread of Hemerobaptist principles, if not the presence of a Hemerobaptist community, inproconsular Asia, when it was written.
Tychicus was a native of proconsular Asia (Acts xx.
He was entrusted with copies of the circular letter, which he was enjoined to deliver in the principal churches of proconsular Asia (see above, p.
There are good reasons for the belief that St Paul here alludes to the so-called Epistle to the Ephesians, which was in fact a circular letter addressed to the principal churches of proconsular Asia (see above p.
But these notices have an important bearing on our subject; for they show how profoundly the effect of John’s preaching was felt in districts as remote as proconsular Asia, even after a lapse of a quarter of a century.
Mark appears here as commended to a church of proconsular Asia, and intending to visit those parts.
He would be well known inproconsular Asia, which he had visited from time to time; Acts xix.
But upon casting my eye on the decree of the senate concerning cases of this nature, I find it only mentions the proconsular provinces.
Under the government of a proconsul; as, a proconsular province.
Of or pertaining of a proconsul; as, proconsular powers.
While he protested his respect for the Senate, he declared that he was ready to resign his proconsular functions, and to disband his army, or deliver it to his successor, provided Pompey did the same.
Cicero, by his persuasive eloquence, calmed the irritated mob, and proposed to entrust to Pompey the care of provisioning, and to confer upon him for five years proconsular powers in Italy and out of Italy.
Scili, the place of residence of these martyrs, was a small city in northwestern Proconsular Africa.
Do you say that the military was sought by us Catholics; if so, then why did no one see the military in arms in the proconsular province?
To Constantine Augustus from Anulinus, a man of proconsular rank, proconsul of Africa.
Cæsar’s proconsularimperium was to terminate one year after the close of the Gallic war.
M1013) But Pompey still controlled his proconsular province of Spain, where seven legions were under his lieutenants, and Africa also was occupied by his party.
There were order and law, wherever proconsular power extended.
The provinces of Achaia and Macedon, praying relief from their public burdens, were for the present discharged of their Proconsular government, and subjected to the Emperor's lieutenants.
But for Germanicus he asked the Proconsular power; and to carry him that dignity, honourable deputies were sent, as also to mollify his sorrow for the death of Augustus.
The Separatists chose a presbyter, named Fortunatus, as their bishop, and thus in the capital of the Proconsular Africa a new sect was organized.
Church of the metropolis of the Proconsular Asia; and the Ignatian forger obviously imagined that he was still alive when his hero passed through Smyrna on his way to the Western capital.
Among the first fruits of their pious care for the spread of Christianity was the famous Apollos, an Alexandrian Jew, who now arrived in the metropolis of the Proconsular Asia.
It has often been thought singular that only seven Churches of the Proconsular Asia are here addressed, as it is well known that, at this period, there were several other Christian societies in the same province.
About two years after his baptism, the chief pastor of the metropolis of the Proconsular Africa was removed by death; and Cyprian, by the acclamations of the Christian people, was called to the vacant office.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "proconsular" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
