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proconsul
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Proconsul \Pro*con"sul\, n. [L., fr. pro for + consul consul.] (Rom. Antiq.) An officer who discharged the duties of a consul without being himself consul; a governor of, or a military commander in, a province. He was usually one who had previously been consul.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "governor or military commander of an ancient Roman province," from Latin proconsul "governor of a province; military commander," from phrase pro consule "(acting) in place of a consul," from pro- "in place of" (see pro-) + ablative of consul. In modern use usually rhetorical, but it was a title of certain commissioners in the French Revolution, was used in English for "deputy consul," and was used again of U.S. administrators in Iraq during the occupation. Related: Proconsular.
Wiktionary
n. (context in ancient Rome English) A magistrate who served as a consul and then as the governor of a province
WordNet
n. an official in a modern colony who has considerable administrative power
a provincial governor of consular rank in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire
an anthropoid ape of the genus Proconsul
Wikipedia
Proconsul may refer to:
- Proconsul, a type of promagistrate in the Roman Empire
- Proconsul (primate), a genus of Miocene ape
A proconsul was a governor of a province in the Roman Republic appointed for one year by the senate. In modern usage, the title has been used (sometimes disparagingly) for a person from one country ruling another country or bluntly interfering in another country's internal affairs.
Proconsul is an extinct genus of primates that existed from 23 to 25 million years ago during the Miocene epoch. Fossil remains are present in Eastern Africa including Kenya and Uganda. Four species have been classified to date: P. africanus, P. gitongai , P. major and P. meswae. The four species differ mainly in body size. Environmental reconstructions for the Early Miocene Proconsul sites are still tentative and range from forested environments to more open, arid grasslands.
The gibbons, great apes and humans are held in evolutionary biology to share a common ancestral lineage, which may have included Proconsul. Its name, meaning "before Consul" (Consul being a certain chimpanzee that, at the time of the genus's discovery, was on display in London), implies that it is ancestral to the chimpanzee, which if true would also make it ancestral to the rest of the apes.
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.