Proconsulate

He should have been sent to some planet which had been under Imperial rule for some time, where the Proconsulate ran itself in a well-worn groove, and where he could at leisure learn the procedures and unlearn some of the unrealisms absorbed at the University from professors too well insulated from the realities of politics.

A Slave is a Slave H. Beam Piper 1934

Proconsulate to Prefecture, and from Prefecture to Viceroyalty, and from there to Odin, all by ship.

Ministry of Disturbance H. Beam Piper 1934

Shatrak, cuttingly, that he didn't want an easy Proconsulate, but an opportunity to help these people.

A Slave is a Slave H. Beam Piper 1934

Obray, and had, on his graduation from the University of Nefertiti, persuaded the Prime Minister to appoint him to a Proconsulate as far from Aton as possible, where he would not embarrass them.

A Slave is a Slave H. Beam Piper 1934

I think you're going to have a nice easy Proconsulate here,

A Slave is a Slave H. Beam Piper 1934

In 416 he condemned them both, in a synod of sixty-eight bishops of the Proconsulate, and induced Innocent I to brand their two principal errors by defining the necessity of grace and of infant baptism.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

Among these bishops, the terrible Optatus of Thimgad became marked on account of his bloody zeal, rambling round Numidia and even the Proconsulate at the head of armed bands, burning farms and villas, rebaptizing the Catholics by main force, spreading terror on all sides.

Saint Augustin Louis Bertrand 1903

Thagaste, then as now, was a town of passage and of traffic, a half-way stopping-place for the southern and coast towns, as well as for those of the Proconsulate and Numidia.

Saint Augustin Louis Bertrand 1903

So they set themselves to shout _traditor_ against whoever displeased them, and particularly against those of Carthage and the Proconsulate.

Saint Augustin Louis Bertrand 1903

When I made an excursion into Tuscany, in order to see about a publick Building, at my own Expence; and had received my private Charges as Lord of the Treasury, The Deputies of the Province of Bætica, in forming their Complaint against the Proconsulate of Cæcilius Classicus, petitioned the Senate, that I might be their Advocate.

Pliny's Epistles in Ten Books: Volume 1, Books 1-6 Pliny 1723