proprætorship

Example Sentences

• "It was then propoſed in the Senate, that Troops ſhould be raiſed over all Italy; that Fauſtus Sylla ſhould be ſent Proprætor into Mauritania; that Pompey ſhould be ſupplied with Money out of the publick Treaſury; and that King Juba ſhould be declared Friend and Ally of the People of Rome: but Marcellus oppoſed the laſt of theſe; and Philippus, Tribune of the People, would not agree to the Proprætorſhip of Sylla."
• "About five years afterwards, Ostorius Scapula succeeded to the proprætorship, in the room of Plautius."
• "We are told that a favourite courtier of Probus, named Victorinus Maurusius, had recommended this usurper to the proprætorship, and that, when reproached on this account by the emperor, Victorinus demanded permission to visit Britain."
• "In 73 b.c. Verres obtained the proprætorship of Sicily by lot."
• "In the following year Cæsar was back in Rome from his successful proprætorship in Spain, and found little difficulty in persuading Pompey and Crassus to join him in forming that political compact which controlled the fortunes of Rome for the next ten years."
• "In the Cimbric War, Sulla again showed his surpassing skill as a commander. Shortly afterwards he obtained the prætorship, and at the conclusion of his year of office, the proprætorship of Cilicia in Asia Minor."