How To Use Consulship In A Sentence
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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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I seek the consulship, which is immortality—a prize worth fighting for, yes?
Imperium
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Consequently your colleague in the consulship is a man of straw.
The First Man in Rome
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Yes, but the consulship is a joint office, based on the principle that political power should always be checked.
Imperium
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Lucius Valerius Flaccus the Princeps Senatus, colleague in the second-last consulship of Gaius Marius, dropped dead the day after he stepped down from office as first interrex, and Philippus proposed that Mamercus be appointed as a temporary Princeps Senatus.
Fortune's Favorites
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This exalted idea of the consulship is borrowed from an oration (iii.p. 107) pronounced by Julian in the servile court of Constantius.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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With reason, therefore, everybody admired Cato, when they saw others sink under labors, and grow effeminate by pleasures; and yet beheld him unconquered by either, and that not only when he was young and desirous of honor, but also when old and greyheaded, after a consulship and triumph; like some famous victor in the games, persevering in his exercise and maintaining his character to the very last.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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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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In their consulship, Fidenæ was besieged, Crustumeria taken, and Præneste revolted from the Latins to the Romans.
The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
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The story of my consulship is an absolute gift to anyone with the slightest spark of imagination.
CONSPIRATA
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-- The overthrow of the decemvirate was followed by a long struggle between the nobles and the commons, which was an effort on the part of the latter to gain admission to the consulship; for up to this time only a patrician could hold that office.
General History for Colleges and High Schools
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Mamercus was a very wealthy man, and his refusal of the aedileship was the cause of his defeat for the consulship.
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But Crassus is very generally blamed for his changeableness in his friendships and enmities, for his unfaithfulness, and his mean and underhand proceedings; since he himself could not deny that to compass the consulship, he hired men to lay violent hands upon Domitius and
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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Suetonius (Caes. 20) has this account: "_Inito honore, primus omnium instituit, ut tam Senatus quam populi diurna acta conficerentur et publicarentur_," which seems naturally to imply that the people's _acta_ had been published every day before Caesar's consulship, and that he did the same thing for the _acta_ of the senate.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
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During their consulship Fidenae was besieged; Crustumeria captured; Praeneste revolted from the Latins to Rome.
The History of Rome, Vol. I
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The highest offices, the two annual consulships, were almost exclusively held by an even smaller group within the senatorial class, and its families possessed special prestige.
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There was then a gap of 12 years - he was posted to New Delhi - before he returned to take up the consulship in 1999.
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Cicero and Clodius exchanged a few pleasantries about Further Gaul and the arduousness of the journey across the Alps, and then Cicero said, “Now tell me, Clodius, is it true that your chief, Murena, is going to seek the consulship?”
CONSPIRATA
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We, who can recall the consulship of Plancus, and quite respectable, old-fogyfied times, remember amongst other amusements which we had as children the pictures at which we were permitted to look.
John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character
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Ambitious Romans aimed for the consulship soon after their term as praetor.
The Spartacus War
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The date of the rescript is the third consulship of Antoninus
Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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I can see where bribing might be excusable if the consulship was the prize, but quaestor!
The First Man in Rome
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These families, known as the nobility, dominated access to the consulships; between them they held over 80% of the consulships in the last century of the Republic.
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The oldest and most important magistracy was the consulship , which can best be described as a dual prime ministership or presidency .
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In the year following his term of consulship, the proconsul held imperial authority outside of Rome in whichever province he was assigned to govern.
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Nor does anyone love Caesar himself unless in some way Caesar is a person of great merit; but we love wealth, a tribuneship, a praetorship, a consulship.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership
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This family had the honour of seven consulships [548], one triumph [549], and two censorships [550]; and being admitted into the patrician order, they continued the use of the same cognomen, with no other praenomina [551] than those of Cneius and Lucius.
De vita Caesarum
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Therefore Publius Apuleius, a tribune of the people, who ever since my consulship has been the witness and partaker of, and my assistant in all my designs and all my dangers could not endure the grief of witnessing my indignation.
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
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For when he had carried the consulship for a friend of his, against the pursuit of Sylla, and that Sylla did a little resent thereat, and began to speak great, Pompey turned upon him again, and in effect bade him be quiet.
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In Tacitus's obituary he is an unamiable novus homo (first man of his family to reach the consulship.
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For when he had carried the consulship for a friend of his, against the pursuit of Sylla, and that Sylla did a little resent thereat, and began to speak great, Pompey turned upon him again, and in effect bade him be quiet.
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Recalled to Rome, Agricola lived in retirement, having refused the proconsulship of Asia.
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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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He left the House on the arm of Gaius Fonteius, who had become suffect consul on the Kalends of May; his own consulship he had laid down on the second day of January, thus imitating Antony the year before.
Antony and Cleopatra
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For when he had carried the consulship for a friend of his, against the pursuit of Sylla, and that Sylla did a little resent thereat, and began to speak great, Pompey turned upon him again, and in effect bade him be quiet.
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“A suffect consulship next year for my nevvy, Titius.”
Antony and Cleopatra
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For when he had carried the consulship for a friend of his, against the pursuit of Sylla, and that Sylla did a little resent thereat, and began to speak great, Pompey turned upon him again, and in effect bade him be quiet.
