Some diplomats

Usage examples of consuls.

One by one the Centuries voted solidly for Decimus Junius Silanus and Lucius Licinius Murena as consuls for the next year.

Centuriate to return consuls and praetors first, then the full gamut of patricians and plebeians in the Popular Assembly to return the more minor magistrates, and finally the tribes in the Plebeian Assembly, which restricted its activities to the election of plebeian aediles and tribunes of the plebs.

If you can divide the consuls of the year, Gabinius, you can go a lot further, a lot faster.

The first order of business was to reduce the consuls of the coming year from two to one, and the way Gabinius did it was deliciously clever.

Whereupon the guilty pair promptly pleaded guilty and offered to conclude a deal with the existing consuls and the new consuls-elect, Lucius Cotta and Lucius Manlius Torquatus.

Lucius Decumius heard that the present consuls, Lucius Caesar and Marcius Figulus, proposed to legislate the crossroads colleges out of existence, he was thrown into a panic-stricken rage and horror, and ran immediately to see his patron, Caesar.

Only one of the consuls can be a patrician, which means the vote for a patrician will be split between Catilina and Sulpicius.

Rome for the elections that if Catilina and Cassius are made consuls, debt will cease to exist.

How can legally elected consuls initiate a revolutionary measure like a general cancellation of debt?

Anyone who would vote for consuls advocating such a policy is painting himself in the color of a revolutionary.

And sure enough, they all reported back that it was indeed being bruited about that if Catilina and Lucius Cassius were elected the consuls, they would bring in a general cancellation of debt.

Lentulus Sura, as the Centuries broke up after a long day electing two consuls and eight praetors.

That pair were planning to overthrow good government, whether they planned to do it as consuls or as revolutionaries!

The consuls and praetors who according to the letters were to be killed went about their business unmolested, and no word of rebellion came from Etruria.

Cicero that a band of freedmen belonging to Cethegus and Lentulus Sura were recruiting through the city with some success, and that when they had sufficient men they intended to attack the houses of Lucius Caesar and Cornificius, rescue Lentulus Sura and Cethegus, set them up as consuls, then rescue the other prisoners and take over the city.