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com-+2 SAL-, a consul ; the highest magistracy of the Roman republic was vested in two consuls, chosen annually: ordinarius, for the full term (opp. suffectus, to fill a vacancy ), L.: designatus, elect : consules creantur, Cs.: me consulem fecistis: ne sufficiatur consul, chosen to fill a vacancy : Consulis imperium, V.— In dates, defining the year; usu. abl absol. : Messalā et Pisone consulibus, in the consulship of , Cs.: a. d. V Kal. Apr. L.Pisone A. Gabinio consulibus (i. e. the 28th of March ), Cs.: nobis consulibus: Consule Tullo, H.: Bibuli consulis amphora, H.: XL annis ante me consulem: ante vos consules: postL.Sullam Q. Pompeium consules. — Sing collect., the consuls, supreme magistracy : eo (iure) consulem usurum, L.: legatisque ad consulem missis, L.: nullius earum rerum consuli ius est, S.—In the title, pro consule ( abbrev . procos.), plur.pro consulibus, a vice-consul, deputy-consul, magistrate with consular powers ; orig. given to a general sent to command an army: pro consule Quinctium subsidio castris mitti, L.: non oportere mitti privatum pro consule. — Also, to a consul whose military command was prolonged beyond his term of office: ut cum Philo consulatu abisset, pro consule rem gereret, L.— After Sulla's time, the consuls, when their year expired, assumed the chief magistracy in provinces designated by the senate, as pro consulibus: litterae a Bruto pro consule: ex litteris Bruti pro consule: qui pro consulibus sint ad urbem, Cs.; see also proconsul. — A proconsul : mortuus Claudius consul erat, L.: quaestor obtigit (Cato) consuli, N.— Poet.: non unius anni, i. e. not by election, but by nature , H.