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  • Episcopate in Proconsular Africa, Numidia and Mauretania totals 768 bishops; across North Africa there are 1,200 bishops; missionary training centers send workers across the world — but seemingly fail to cross the desert south in great numbers.

    A survey of West Africa: a Chronology 2007

  • [Bengel]. seven churches -- As there were many other churches in Proconsular Asia

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Africa Proconsular is proper is a grain basket, as I'm sure you know — I heard one estimate that Africa provides a third of all the corn we need in Rome.

    Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998

  • Macedon, praying relief from their public burdens, were for the present discharged of their Proconsular government, and subjected to the Emperor's lieutenants.

    The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola Caius Cornelius Tacitus

  • But for Germanicus he asked the Proconsular power; and to carry him that dignity, honourable deputies were sent, as also to mollify his sorrow for the death of Augustus.

    The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola Caius Cornelius Tacitus

  • Nobody remains longer than that on a first Proconsular appointment.

    A Slave is a Slave H. Beam Piper 1934

  • They were all crowded into one of the executive conference-rooms at the Proconsular Palace, the batteries of communication and recording equipment incongruously functional among the gold-encrusted luxury of the original Masterly furnishings.

    A Slave is a Slave H. Beam Piper 1934

  • Erskyll was busy, in the days before the Midyear Feasts, either conferring at the Citadel with the ex-slaves who were the functional heads of the Managements or at the Proconsular Palace with Hozhet and

    A Slave is a Slave H. Beam Piper 1934

  • Floodlights threw a white dazzle from the top of the Proconsular Palace and from the tops of the four buildings around it that Imperial troops had cleared and occupied, and from contragravity vehicles above.

    A Slave is a Slave H. Beam Piper 1934

  • It came practically as a thunderbolt when Khreggor Chmidd screened the ship the next afternoon to report that a Proconsular Palace had been found, and would be ready for occupancy in a day or so.

    A Slave is a Slave H. Beam Piper 1934

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