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
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 Ferrero, Frances Lance
He had gained much credit by his proconsulship in Asia, and had since by an honourable leisure wiped out the blot which stained the activity of his former years.
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas
In 143 he was consul for two months, but declined the proconsulship of Asia on the ground of ill-health.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
He was accused of malversation in his proconsulship of Asia, B.C.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Stewart, Aubrey
