Consulship

This exalted idea of the consulship is borrowed from an oration (iii.p. 107) pronounced by Julian in the servile court of Constantius. ❋ Unknown (1206)

The story of my consulship is an absolute gift to anyone with the slightest spark of imagination. ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)

I seek the consulship, which is immortality—a prize worth fighting for, yes? ❋ Robert Harris (2006)

Yes, but the consulship is a joint office, based on the principle that political power should always be checked. ❋ Robert Harris (2006)

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. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I can see where bribing might be excusable if the consulship was the prize, but quaestor! ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1990)

Consequently your colleague in the consulship is a man of straw. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1990)

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. ❋ Marcus Tullius Cicero (N/A)

If I had not shewn some boldness and spirit in opposing his intemperate attack, would not everyone have concluded that the courage I had displayed in my consulship was the result of accident rather than design? ❋ Marcus Tullius Cicero (N/A)

Their consulship was a popular one, and inflicted no injustice upon the patricians, though they regarded it with suspicion, for whatever was done to safeguard the liberties of the plebs they looked upon as an infringement of their own powers. ❋ Unknown (1905)

The most important event of the year of his consulship was the conspiracy of ❋ Marcus Tullius Cicero (1874)

The consulship was a double-headed monster, which spent half its strength in bitter contests waged between its members. ❋ Jacob Abbott (1841)

The Romans, who were fond of jokes and pasquinades against those who were in power, used to call the consulship of Cæsar, the consulship of ❋ 46-120? Plutarch (1839)

The rebel was beheaded in the ancient temple of Memory his consulship was abolished: 148 and the remains of his private fortune, not exceeding the moderate sum of four thousand pounds of gold, were granted to the brave Constantius, who had already defended the throne, which he afterwards shared with his feeble sovereign. ❋ Unknown (1206)

SERVILIA ambitious and politically shrewd wife of Junius Silanus, a candidate for the consulship; half-sister of Cato; long-term mistress of Caesar; mother of three daughters and a son, Brutus, by her first husband ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)

True, he had achieved the consulship, but then so had many nonentities, Hybrida being the most obvious example. ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)

‘O, happy Rome, born in my consulship’—there, you see? ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)