| One of the greatest attractions of the praetorship and consulship was that they conferred imperium, which gave the bearer the right to command armies. |
| The casual, almost formulaic, reference to the fact that this was Galba's second consulship certainly prompts a reader to wonder about his first. |
| Mamercus was a very wealthy man, and his refusal of the aedileship was the cause of his defeat for the consulship. |
| In 140 Marcus was raised to the consulship, and in 145 his betrothal was consummated by marriage. |
| Thereafter came praetorship and consulship, and finally the quinquennial office of censor, the crown of a republican politician's career. |
| But his monopolization of the consulship offended the Senate, making a different arrangement clearly necessary. |
