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. ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)
Quintius, Serranus and many others, were offered not only wives but consulships and dictatorships in the open field. ❋ 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. ❋ Unknown (2007)
How much would it cost him in addition to buy two consulships and a praetorship? ❋ 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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ 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. ❋ Plutarch (2003)
As for the men of high rank, he promised to some of them future consulships and praetorships, some he consoled with other offices and honors, and to all held out hopes of favor by the solicitude he showed to rule with the general good-will; insomuch that upon the death of Maximus one day before his consulship was ended, he made ❋ Plutarch (2003)
By the end of the old year and the end of the consulships of Vatia and Appius Claudius, Sulla's regimen at Misenum was so well established that the whole villa oscillated through his cycles in a fairly placid way. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)
The rest of the men were consulars, with his father holding two more consulships than the rest put together. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1991)
Of consulships he had won six, which meant there was a seventh yet to come. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1991)
As you well know, I cannot condone all these consecutive consulships, nor some of your more wolfy friends. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1990)
The first, that the emergency which faced the State and resulted in my being allowed the unprecedented honor of so many consecutive consulships is now conclusively, finally, positively over. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1990)
The only permissible "first" is the first among equals, but after five consulships, three of them in absentia, it is getting extremely difficult to disguise the fact that you tower over your so-called equals. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1990)
Between 1927 and 1935, the government put him in charge of a number of honorary consulships, which took him to Burma, Ceylon, ❋ Unknown (1971)
When this person took his place in the centre of a body of the patricians, conspicuous above the rest, carrying as it were in his eloquence and bodily strength dictatorships and consulships combined, he alone withstood the storms of the tribunes and the populace. ❋ Titus Livius (N/A)
And in order that the plebeian portion of the multitude might bear the thing with greater resignation, the aged men, who had enjoyed triumphs and consulships, openly declared that they would die along with them, and that they would not burden the scanty stores of the armed men with those bodies, with which they were now unable to bear arms, or to defend their country. ❋ Titus Livius (N/A)
