Proprætorship

Origin

en + -proprætor + ship

Full definition of proprætorship

Noun

1. Alternative spelling of en
• 1755: Julius Caesar aut. and William Duncan tr., The Commentaries of Cæsar, translated into English, volume 2, page 125It was then propoÅ¿ed in the Senate, that Troops Å¿hould be raiÅ¿ed over all Italy; that FauÅ¿tus Sylla Å¿hould be Å¿ent Proprætor into Mauritania; that Pompey Å¿hould be Å¿upplied with Money out of the publick TreaÅ¿ury; and that King Juba Å¿hould be declared Friend and Ally of the People of Rome: but Marcellus oppoÅ¿ed the laÅ¿t of theÅ¿e; and Philippus, Tribune of the People, would not agree to the ProprætorÅ¿hip of Sylla.
• 1803: Sir Robert Atkyns, The History of the County of Gloucester, page xxiiAbout five years afterwards, Ostorius Scapula succeeded to the proprætorship, in the room of Plautius.
• 1861: Thomas Wright, The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon, page 111We are told that a favourite courtier of Probus, named Victorinus Maurusius, had recommended this usurper to the proprætorship, and that, when reproached on this account by the emperor, Victorinus demanded permission to visit Britain.
• 1901: Francis Marion Crawford, The Rulers of the South: Sicily, Calabria, Malta, volume 1, page 323 (The Macmillan company)In 73 b.c. Verres obtained the proprætorship of Sicily by lot.
• 1912: Frank Frost Abbott, The Common People of Ancient Rome: Studies of Roman Life and Literature, page 245 (Routledge)In the following year Cæsar was back in Rome from his successful proprætorship in Spain, and found little difficulty in persuading Pompey and Crassus to join him in forming that political compact which controlled the fortunes of Rome for the next ten years.
• 1913: Hutton Webster, Ancient History, page 406 (D.C. Heath & Co.)In the Cimbric War, Sulla again showed his surpassing skill as a commander. Shortly afterwards he obtained the prætorship, and at the conclusion of his year of office, the proprætorship of Cilicia in Asia Minor.
• 1953: Frank Burr Marsh aut. and Howard Hayes Scullard ed., A History of the Roman World from 146 to 30 B.C., page 338 (Methuen; 2

• … content with the legitimate profits of his proprætorship in Spain.