proconsulate
noun
the office or term of office of a proconsul.
proconsulship
-
a variation of
proconsulate.
Example Sentences
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Leonard Wood had recently completed a health-harassing, nerve-defying job which history may well record as the most brilliant proconsulship of the age.
From Time Magazine Archive
Quintus is not thinking of any proconsulship he may win, or even of the love light in the eyes of Lucretia, as he climbs again the heights of Scopus.
From An Easter Disciple The Chronicle of Quintus, the Roman Knight by Arthur Benton Sanford
After this he obtained the proconsulship of Africa, and again on his return was sent as legate successively to Dalmatia and Pannonia.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
You know that at the close of the proconsulship in Gaul, there breaks out a great civil war; this lasts, with brief interruptions and pauses, until the battle of Actium.
From Characters and events of Roman History by Frances Lance Ferrero
Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius, doubtless identical with the Macrobius who held, among other high offices, the proconsulship of Africa A.D.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by George Middleton
