For while Cicero claimed his consulship in 63 B.C., only 14 years later Julius Caesar would cross the Rubicon with his legions. |
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Thereafter came praetorship and consulship, and finally the quinquennial office of censor, the crown of a republican politician's career. |
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The senate, led by Cicero, supported Octavian, who defeated Antony in 43 and took the consulship by force. |
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The casual, almost formulaic, reference to the fact that this was Galba's second consulship certainly prompts a reader to wonder about his first. |
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One of the greatest attractions of the praetorship and consulship was that they conferred imperium, which gave the bearer the right to command armies. |
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The honorary consulship provides him with consular plates for his cars. |
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Mr Harris handles the big set pieces superbly, especially a knock-down, drag-out fight for the consulship. |
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But his monopolization of the consulship offended the Senate, making a different arrangement clearly necessary. |
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His consulship may therefore have been intended to emphasize the stability and status quo of the regime. |
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After his consulship, he waited in Rome while rival nobles undermined the position of Lucius Licinius Lucullus, who was campaigning against Mithradates in Anatolia, and made halfhearted attempts to deal with the pirates. |
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In 205 Scipio, who had returned to Rome to hold the consulship, proposed to follow up his victories by an attack on the home territory of Carthage. |
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In practice imperial provinces were run by resident governors who were members of the Senate and had held the consulship. |
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He seized power along with the consul Lucius Cornelius Cinna and killed the other consul, Gnaeus Octavius, achieving his seventh consulship. |
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Sulla also held two dictatorships and one more consulship, which began the crisis and decline of Roman Republic. |
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Suetonius states that he committed incest with his sisters, killed some men just for amusement and nominated a horse for a consulship. |
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When his consulship ended, Caesar narrowly avoided prosecution for the irregularities of his year in office, and quickly left for his province. |
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Caesar held both the dictatorship and the tribunate, but alternated between the consulship and the proconsulship. |
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Under his consulship, however, the Senate had little power in initiating legislation by introducing bills for senatorial debate. |
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After the consulship had been opened to the plebeians, the plebeians were able to hold both the dictatorship and the censorship. |
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Domitius Ahenobarbus ran for the consulship in 55 BC promising to take Caesar's command from him. |
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Pompey and Crassus were promised the consulship in 55 BC, and Caesar's term as governor was extended for five years. |
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Caesar held both the dictatorship and the tribunate, and alternated between the consulship and the proconsulship. |
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Faced with the choice between a triumph and the consulship, Caesar chose the consulship. |
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He received no triumph on his return and did not apparently run for the consulship, but he did marry Julia, the aunt of Julius Caesar. |
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Thus Metellus was using Marius' military experience, while Marius was strengthening his position to run for the consulship. |
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The provinces to which each consul was assigned were drawn by lot and determined before the end of his consulship. |
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In July, an embassy of centurions sent by Octavian entered Rome and demanded that he receive the consulship left vacant by Hirtius and Pansa. |
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It is thought that originally only patricians were eligible for the consulship. |
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When he relinquished his annual consulship, he legally lost this power because his proconsular powers applied only to his imperial provinces. |
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He held six consulships during Vespasian's reign but only one of these, in 73, was an ordinary consulship. |
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By offering the consulship to potential opponents, Domitian may have wanted to compromise these senators in the eyes of their supporters. |
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Since Clovis' name does not appear in the consular lists, it is likely he was granted a suffect consulship. |
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After his consulship, Caesar gained control of the provinces of Illyricum and Cisalpine and Transalpine Gaul. |
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Faced with a choice between a triumph and the consulship, Caesar chose the consulship and entered the city. |
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Cinna was chosen for his second consulship and Marius to his seventh consulship. |
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Marius died on January 13, 86 BC, just seventeen days into his seventh consulship. |
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Consequently, holding the ordinary consulship was a great honor and the office was the major symbol of the still republican constitution. |
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His success as the legate of a legion earned him a consulship in 51, after which he retired from public life, having incurred the enmity of Claudius' wife, Agrippina. |
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By 108 BC, Marius conceived the desire to run for the consulship. |
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The political career of Vespasian included the offices of quaestor, aedile, and praetor, and culminated with a consulship in 51, the year of Domitian's birth. |
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Walsh's argument seems to suggest the former, probably drawing on the fact that Petronius had held the proconsulship in Bithynia, and the consulship thereafter. |
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For example, Emperor Honorius was given the consulship at birth. |
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Soon after his bout of illness subsided, Augustus gave up his consulship. |
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In the gradual development of the Roman legal system, however, some important functions were detached from the consulship and assigned to new officers. |
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The second function taken from the consulship was their judicial power. |
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Since eagles were considered sacred animals of Jupiter, the supreme god of the Romans, it was later seen as an omen predicting his election to the consulship seven times. |
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