The Senate and the people had decided that, during the war of Italy, the powers of the proconsuls and praetors might be prorogued, and that the same consuls might be re-elected as often as might be thought fit.
Caesar remedied these abuses, by forbidding the proconsuls to demand the crown before the triumph had been decreed,[1153] and by subjecting to the most rigorous restrictions the contributions in kind which were to be furnished.
The propraetors were to remain one year, and the proconsuls two, at the head of their governments.
The consuls or proconsuls seek to be useful to their country without false susceptibility; to-day in the first rank, to-morrow in the second, they serve with the same devotion under the orders of him whom they commanded the previous day.
How are we to fix a limit to the arbitrary conduct of proconsuls and propraetors, which all the laws promulgated for so many years have been powerless to check?
In fact, Appian tells us that the proconsulsexercised their authority in certain countries of the peninsula.
Its provisions guaranteed the inhabitants against the violence, the arbitrary conduct, and the corruption of the proconsuls and propraetors, and fixed the allotments to which these were entitled.
Senate passed the "last decree" calling upon the magistrates and proconsuls (i.
What other Emperors and other proconsuls did, with or without cause, it is easy to guess.
The magistrate of Plutarch’s day was to remember that he ruled with a ruler over him; that his city was in subjection to the proconsuls of Rome, to the procurators of Cæsar.
To appoint the proconsuls and presidents of the provinces, and to confer on all the magistrates their civil jurisdiction.
It was natural that the emperors should not refuse what the proconsuls had accepted; and the divine honors which both the one and the other received from the provinces, attested rather the despotism than the servitude of Rome.
The proconsuls of the senate, particularly those of Asia, Greece, and Africa, enjoyed a more honorable character than the lieutenants of the emperor, who commanded in Gaul or Syria.
He had exerted himself to stay the mischief at its fountain, to punish bribery, to punish the rapacity of proconsuls and propraetors, to purify the courts, to maintain respect for the law.
Finally, there was a law, carefully framed, De repetundis, to exact retribution from proconsuls or propraetors of the type of Verres who had plundered the provinces.
The proconsuls could win battles, but they could not keep their hands from off the treasures of their allies and subjects.
As according to Caesar's ordinance annually sixteen propraetors and two proconsuls divided the governorships among them, and the latter remained two years in office (p.
The centrally located and peacefully disposed were governed by proconsuls appointed by the senate.
This probability is heightened by the fact that it was a custom born of both pride and pleasure, for Roman procurators and proconsuls to occupy the splendid edifices of the local kings.
The learned are divided between three persons of the same name, who were all proconsuls of Asia.
What official arrangements were made for Proconsuls in regard to money, when in command of a province, we do not know.
But it had become the way with all Proconsuls who of late years had been sent forth from Rome into the provinces.
The magistrates above-mentioned were elected annually, but it was the practice frequently to prolong the command of the Consuls or Prætors in the provinces under the titles of Proconsuls or Proprætors.
In the later times of the Republic it was usual for both Consuls and several Prætors to remain at Rome during their year of office, and at its close to take the command of provinces, with the titles of Proconsuls or Proprætors.
The provinces were divided into, a kind of circuits called conventus, whither the proconsuls used to go in order to administer justice.
The other provinces, called Senatorial, were governed by Proconsuls appointed by the Senate.
His government there may have been no worse than that of many other proconsuls in the different provinces, but we have a fuller account of it owing to the prosecution of Cicero, whose speeches against Verres are preserved.
The Consuls and Praetors were to remain at Rome during their first year of office, and then go to the provinces as Proconsuls and Propraetors.
But few genuine documents of the proceedings before the proconsuls and praetors who condemned the Christians to death have been delivered down to us.
Thus, retired in the midst of the world and unknown even when they appeared, they escaped the tyranny of the proconsuls and praetors and were free amid the public slavery.
No 'lex de repetundis' has been needed to punish avaricious proconsuls who had fattened on the provinces.
They are not chosen like the Roman proconsuls from the ranks of trained statesmen who have held high administrative offices at home.
The proconsuls and propraetors were to command the army.
But it is now an unquestioned and unquestionable fact that all the provincial governors who represented the Senate in imperial times, whatever magistracy they might have held previously, were styled officially proconsuls [293:2].
Contemporary records bear testimony to the existence of proconsuls in Cyprus not only before and after but during the reign of Claudius.
The inscriptions mention by name two proconsuls who governed the province in this Emperor's time (A.
The proconsuls of Marseille and Lyon commit atrocities in the name of Robespierre.
But as the conferences of Lucca took place just at the epoch when the proconsuls and propraetors were starting for their provinces (we know from Cicero, Epist.
As, at the time of the conference of Lucca, there was no dictator or master of cavalry, the number of 120 fasces can only apply to the collective escort of proconsuls and praetors.
On the other hand, the proconsuls were prohibited from quitting their provinces as long as they were in the exercise of their commands.
Nevertheless, it is very probable that Gabinius was not more scrupulous than the other proconsuls in matter of probity; for, if corruption then displayed itself with impudence in the provinces, it was perhaps still more shameless in Rome.
The consuls and proconsuls had twelve lictors, the praetors six, the dictators twenty-four, and the master of the cavalry a number which varied.
Thus the number of 120 fasces would represent the collective number of the lictors of propraetors or proconsuls who could pass through Lucca before embarking either at Pisa, or Adria, or at Ravenna.
April and May), it is probable that the newly-named proconsuls and propraetors repaired to Lucca before they went to take possession of their commands.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "proconsuls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
