Now Caesar’s proconsulship of Gaul was to terminate on March 1, 49, and the consular elections would take place at the earliest in the following summer.
He goes on to say ‘He had gained much credit by his proconsulship in Asia (under Vespasian, circ.
The interval between that and his proconsulship he spent in leisure and retirement, for fear of Agrippina, who still held great sway over her son, and hated all the friends of Narcissus, who was then dead.
Tullius Cicero, in which he advises and exhorts his brother Quintus, who then held the proconsulship of Asia with no great reputation, to imitate the example of his neighbour Octavius, in gaining the affections of the allies of Rome.
To interrupt a course of life too uniform to afford him perpetual satisfaction, he accepted of the proconsulship of Bithynia, and went to that province, where he discharged the duties of his office with great credit.
Mommsen, in a special dissertation, entitled The Question of Right between Caesar and the Senate, he proves that we must distinguish in the proconsulship between the provincia and the imperium.
During his proconsulshiphe supported the party of Brutus and Cassius.
The nobles never pardoned him for being the author of the law which had entrusted to Pompey the command of the expedition against the pirates, and for having shown, during his proconsulship in Syria, want of deference in regard to the Senate.
They must, therefore, have counted as one year of theproconsulship the few months of 695.
Such was the system of the Senate, naturally much inclined to shorten the duration of the proconsulship of Gaul.
Polycarp was martyred during the proconsulship of Statius Quadratus.
Certainly Rome would have been occupied with Gallic concerns a year sooner and by a different man; Cæsar would probably have had to seek elsewhere a brilliant proconsulship and things Gallic would have for ever escaped his energy.
You know that at the close of the proconsulship in Gaul, there breaks out a great civil war; this lasts, with brief interruptions and pauses, until the battle of Actium.
He is the son of Marcus Cornelius Magnus, that Roman noble who is the intimate associate of the reigning Caesar, and who has been a luxurious resident on the Palatine Hill since his distinguished proconsulship in Africa.
Quintus is not thinking of any proconsulship he may win, or even of the love light in the eyes of Lucretia, as he climbs again the heights of Scopus.
That is if I take a liking for any one and wish to marry him, you must positively obtain the proconsulshipof Syria or Egypt for him.
If he be successful, he may get a proconsulship for our Lamia.
I shall find means to advance him to some foreign post--he knows Antioch, I will give him the proconsulship of Syria and Cilicia, and so move him away from Rome.
