prō-consul Copy link Outline I. One who at the close of his consulship in Rome became governor of a province ...B. Transf., of an ex-prœtor made governor of a province ...2. = propraetor, Liv. 39, 29, 4 Weissenb. ad loc.; 33, 25, 9; 35, 22, 6 al.— ...II. Under the emperors, who shared the provinces with the Senate, ...B. Of municipal officers, Vulg. Act. 19, 38 ... ⓘprōcōnsul: masc nom sg • prō-consul (also separately, prō consŭle; v. pro, II. B. 2.; and abbreviated, procos.), is, m. I. One who at the close of his consulship in Rome became governor of a province, or military commander under a governor; a proconsul, Cic. Div. 2, 36, 76: Domitium proconsulem arcessivit, Sall. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 902 P.: agendas pro praetoribus, prove consulibus grates, Tac. A. 15, 22: L. Manilius Procos., Caes. B. G. 3, 20.— B. Transf., of an ex-prœtor made governor of a province: (Gellius) cum pro consule ex praeturā in Graeciam venisset, Cic. Leg. 1, 20, 53; Liv. 37, 46.— 2. = propraetor, Liv. 39, 29, 4 Weissenb. ad loc.; 33, 25, 9; 35, 22, 6 al.— II. Under the emperors, who shared the provinces with the Senate, a governor in one of the provinces of the Senate, Suet. Aug. 47; Gai. Inst. 4, 139.— B. Of municipal officers, Vulg. Act. 19, 38.
prōcōnsŭl Copy link ⓘprōcōnsul: masc nom sg • prōcōnsŭl, ŭlis, m., proconsul [magistrat qui gouverne une province au sortir du consulat, ou délégué dans cette charge, cf. Cic. Leg. 1, 53] : Cic. Div. 2, 76 || proconsul [gouverneur d'une province proconsulaire, sous les empereurs] : Suet. Aug. 47.
proconsul Copy link ⓘprōcōnsul: masc nom sg PROCONSVL is. m. et, vt quibusdam placet, etiam PROCONSVLE, [ἀνθύπατος] vocatur, qui Consulis potestatem habet. […] 🗁 Page Scan
proconsul Copy link • proconsul: prōconsul, ŭlis (rare): Cic. Div. 2, 36, 76: Sall. fr. Usu. better, pro consule, and always so when the subs. in Eng. is an attributive: when I was setting out for Cilicia as p., quum pro consule in Ciliciam proficiscerer, Cic. de Or. 1, 18, 82 (where proconsul would have been inelegant). (But proconsul must be used for the subject of a sentence, or when the term is generic: e. g. proconsul edixit; bella a proconsulibus administrantur.)
PROCONSUL Copy link • PROCONSULby circumlocution with pro consule (e.g., to go as proconsul into Cilicia, pro consule in Ciliciam proficisci, Cic.), or, as one word, proconsul (this form is found in Cic.; e.g., Divin., 2, 36, 76); proconsularis vir (Tac., Agr., 42).