Procuratorship

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Proc´u`ra`tor`ship

The office or term of a procurator.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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There were limits, though; his offer of valuable cloth and his farm as the prerequisite loan for candidacy for a procuratorship was not accepted (Sanuto 31: 183-84, 199; 32: 340, 447, 450, 458; 33: 92; 38: 45; 41: 374-75; 42: 148, 263, 264; 45: 359; 46: 329, 355; 50: 45-46, 182).

"Tanto che l'aro amazo": Violence in Angelo Beolco's Plays and in His Associates' Lives

Iulius Vehilius, praefectus classis Ponticae under Marcus Aurelius, went on to a procuratorship of Lusitania and Vettonia after repelling the Mauri from Spain, just as the Sinopean ignotus (Gavius?) became procurator of the adjacent Galatia and Paphlagonia.

Roman fleets in the Black Sea: mysteries of the classis Pontica

A letter to Antoninus (9), commends Calpurnius Julianus Appianus (the historian Appian), requesting that 'the Greek' be granted the honour of a procuratorship without the obligation to carry it out, 'for he is old and childless, and needs some consolation!' The emperor must evidently have complied, and Appian was suitably grateful, for in Epistola Graieca 4 (VdH Add.