Crossword-Solution: PROCONSUL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Proconsul | n. | 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. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “PROCONSUL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Military commander of an ancient Roman province | 1 answer |
| Colonial governor | 2 answers |
| provincial governor | 3 answers |
| Magistracy | 53 answers |
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Sentences with PROCONSUL (5)
After a decent resistance, the crafty tyrant submitted to the orders of the senate; and consented to receive the government of the provinces, and the general command of the Roman armies, under the well-known names of PROCONSUL and IMPERATOR.
About fourscore years after the death of Christ, his innocent disciples were punished with death by the sentence of a proconsul of the most amiable and philosophic character, and according to the laws of an emperor distinguished by the wisdom and justice of his general administration.
The conduct of this important business was intrusted to the eloquent Symmachus, 14 a wealthy and noble senator, who united the sacred characters of pontiff and augur with the civil dignities of proconsul of Africa and præfect of the city.
The populous villages of Mount Taurus were filled with horsemen and archers: they resisted the imposition of tributes, but they recruited the armies of Justinian; and his civil magistrates, the proconsul of Cappadocia, the count of Isauria, and the praetors of Lycaonia and Pisidia, were invested with military power to restrain the licentious practice of rapes and assassinations.
The traveller will not venture alone, but awaits the companionship on the road of an ambassador, a quaestor or a proconsul.