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What does proconsulship mean?

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Noun
  1. The office or status of a proconsul; a proconsulate.
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The author provides a historical analysis of the phenomenon of proconsulship and how it has manifested itself in American history.
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.
Recalled to Rome, Agricola lived in retirement, having refused the proconsulship of Asia.
The most commonly chosen province for the proconsulship was Cisalpine Gaul.
Caesar held both the dictatorship and the tribunate, but alternated between the consulship and the proconsulship.
The inscription below the pediment indicates that the temple was dedicated in 183-4 by a Roman senator who had risen to hold the proconsulship of Asia.

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