It was in the consulship of Appius Claudius that they first ventured upon that strait which has so ill a name from the strange things related of it, and so impetuous a current.

But she, that gave the lictor's rod and axe To wait my six times consulship in Rome, Will not pursue where erst she flattered so.

He had obtained for himself the title of imperator and the dictatorship for life and the consulship for ten years.

"Suppose you get that consulship at Algiers.

Duration of time, the remainder of the year of the 5th dictatorship of C. Iulius Caesar with M. Aemilius Lepidus, Master of the Horse, and of his 5th consulship with Marcus Antonius.

They entered on their consulship on the third day before the ides of August, the state being now strong enough not only to repel a a hostile attack, but even to act itself on the offensive.

But now in his old age the sea was not so kind to him as when, in his bold and confident youth, he had sailed to sue for his first consulship from the very land to which he was now flying.

What would you not have done when you got arms and soldiers, considering that you occasioned so many and so great instances of turmoil in your consulship as a result of these elaborate antitheses, which you have made your specialty, of which alone you were master.

However, Augustus did not serve as consul every day continuously, but after holding office a little while he gave the title of the consulship to another.

Also the men first to enter upon office were accustomed to hold the title of the consulship through the entire year as is now done: the rest were accorded the same title by the dwellers in the capital themselves and by the people in the rest of Italy during each period of their office (as is also now the custom), but those in outside nations knew few or none of them and therefore called them lesser consuls.

Quintus Fabius and Publius Decius were succeeded in the consulship by Lucius Postumius Megellus and Marcus Atilius Regulus.

One, Ofella, stood for the consulship against his wishes, and went about with a crowd of friends in the Forum.

We see in the rostra the statue of Cnaeus Octavius, an illustrious and great man, the first man who brought the consulship into that family, which afterwards abounded in illustrious men.

As for Drusus, he performed the duties pertaining to the consulship along with his colleague as any private citizen might have done.

The nobles then all gathered round his seat, and besought him to raise up the consulship out of the plebeian mire, and to restore both to the office itself, and to the patrician rank, their original dignity.