Proprætorship

Full definition of proprætorship

(plural proprætorships)

1755, w, The Commentaries of Cæsar, translated into English, It was then propo?ed in the Senate, that Troops ?hould be rai?ed over all Italy; that Fau?tus Sylla ?hould be ?ent Proprætor into Mauritania; that Pompey ?hould be ?upplied with Money out of the publick Trea?ury; and that King Juba ?hould be declared Friend and Ally of the People of Rome: but Marcellus oppo?ed the la?t of the?e; and Philippus, Tribune of the People, would not agree to the Proprætor?hip of Sylla.
1901, Francis Marion Crawford, The Rulers of the South: Sicily, Calabria, Malta, 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, 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, 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

nd Ed.)