consulships

To one side, behind sheep fencing, was the enclosure for the candidates, of whom there were perhaps twenty both the consulships and the eight praetorships all had to be decided that day.

CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

Quintius, Serranus and many others, were offered not only wives but consulships and dictatorships in the open field.

The Defense Apuleius 2008

Quintius, Serranus and many others, were offered not only wives but consulships and dictatorships in the open field.

The Defense Apuleius 2008

This concentration of wealth (until the Industrial Revolution wealth was measured by land ownership) forced Rome-during the multiple consulships of Gaius Marius-to recruit and equip troops who, contrary to tradition, were financially unable to equip themselves.

The Caesar Factor 2007

How much would it cost him in addition to buy two consulships and a praetorship?

Imperium Robert Harris 2006

How much would it cost him in addition to buy two consulships and a praetorship?

Imperium Robert Harris 2006

Praetorships, consulships are distributed: let children scramble for them, let them be shut out, beaten, kiss the hands of the giver, of the slaves: but to me these are only dried figs and nuts.

The Discourses of Epictetus 2004

Hear them when they groan, when they grieve, when on account of these very consulships and glory and splendour they think that they are more wretched and in greater danger.

The Discourses of Epictetus 2004

The people had never before bestowed so many consulships on any one man, except on Valerius Corvinus only, and he, too, they say, was forty-five years between his first and last; but Marius, from his first, ran through five more, with one current of good fortune.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

It was to do such works as these, it seems, that he gave us all our long training; he will return home, and boast of these great performances of his consulships to the people.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003