consulship

Noun

(plural consulships)

The office or status of a consul; a consulate

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In the same year Pollio entered upon his consulship, which had been promised him in 43.
II, 66 alludes to the consulship of P. Scipio in the same year.
During the same year, however (according to some, two years later, under Pompey's new law), Scaurus was condemned on a charge of illegal practices when a candidate for the consulship. He went into exile, and nothing further is heard of him.
In 61 Gabinius, then praetor, endeavoured to win the public favour by providing games on a scale of unusual splendour, and in 58 managed to secure the consulship, not without suspicion of bribery.
It needed a change in the constitution to give the consulship to Lucius Sextius; it needed only union and energy in the electors to give it to Gaius Marius.

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