A provincial governor of consular rank in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire

Usage examples of proconsul.

The civil offices of consul, of proconsul, of censor, and of tribune, by the union of which it had been formed, betrayed to the people its republican extraction.

The pompa would be concluded by the proconsul dedicating the games to the emperor.

Junius Gallio, became Consul and, thirteen years ago, Proconsul in Achaea.

His life-drama was interwoven into the lives of all classes of people: men, women and children, Judaists and heathen, King Herod and the proconsul Pilate, priests and soldiers, merchants and beggars, learned sophists and ignorant fools, the sick and the healthy, the righteous and the sinful, Jews and Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, and all others who could be met in Palestine, the very market of races and creeds.

He remembered how they had marched, hours upon hours in the hot Syrian sun, with those Nabataean and Armenian traitors jeering and the proconsul thinking only of his precious son and his horses.

If proconsul or propraetor, he probably governed a province, though he might be serving as a senior legate of some general in the field.

A convenient English word to describe the consul or praetor, proconsul or propraetor, whousually for the space of one yearruled a Roman province in the name of the Senate and People of Rome.

Like the imperium of a proconsul, that of a propraetor was lost the moment he stepped inside the sacred boundary of Rome.

It is possible that lower mammals and reptiles, lacking extensive frontal lobes, also lack this sense, real or illusory, of individuality and free will, which is so characteristically human and which may first have been experienced dimly by Proconsul.

Record on your paper that Gaius Julius Caesar, proconsul, has this day borrowed thirty million sesterces in coin to fund his legitimate war in the name of Rome.

The first fossil evidence of a brain of even vaguely human aspects dates back to eighteen million years to the Miocene Period, when an anthropoid ape which we call Proconsul or Dryo-pithecus appeared.

Two officers of rank, who were intrusted with that commission, placed Cyprian between them in a chariot, and as the proconsul was not then at leisure, they conducted him, not to a prison, but to a private house in Carthage, which belonged to one of them.

Of these, three were governed by proconsuls, thirty-seven by consulars, five by correctors, and seventy-one by presidents.

A severe inquisition, which was taken by the Praetorian vicar, and the proconsul of Africa, the report of two episcopal visitors who had been sent to Carthage, the decrees of the councils of Rome and of Arles, and the supreme judgment of Constantine himself in his sacred consistory, were all favorable to the cause of Caecilian.

Proconsul Ionfeu had said that the village of Moggly lay about half a league away in that direction.