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    Proconsul major, an extinct primate of the genus Proconsul, was possibly the ancestor of Afropithecus and showed hominid characteristics. It occurred during...
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    gitongai, P. major and P. meswae. The four species differ mainly in body size. Environmental reconstructions for the Early Miocene Proconsul sites are still...
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    Leakey, 1963 Proconsul Hopwood [de], 1933 Proconsul africanus Hopwood [de], 1933 Proconsul gitongai (Pickford & Kunimatsu, 2005) Proconsul major Le Gros Clark...
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    the Aurelii and Rutilii families. They had two daughters, known as Julia Major and Julia Minor, and Julius Caesar the dictator was born to them in 100...
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    next year, 209 BC, saw Scipio's first major campaign: he besieged Carthago Nova (modern Cartagena), which was a major Carthaginian logistics hub and of substantial...
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  • Marcus Asinius Sabinianus or Sabinian was proconsul of the Roman province of Africa. In 240 he led a revolt against Gordian III. He proclaimed himself...
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  • Leakey, 1950) Proconsul Hopwood, 1933 Proconsul africanus Hopwood, 1933 Proconsul gitongai (Pickford and Kunimatsu, 2005) Proconsul major Le Gros Clark...
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    valuable services to the early Roman Empire, most notably by serving as the proconsul of Africa in 21 BC and leading an expedition to sub-Saharan Africa. He...
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    later married Gaius Sallustius Crispus Passienus, consul suffect in 27, proconsul of Asia and consul in AD 44. Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (PIR2 D127) -...
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  • Appuleius was first discovered due to a dedication from when her husband was proconsul of Asia. Octavia and her husband, as well as their two sons, may be depicted...
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    circuits, where the chief men met together at major centers, at fixed times of year, under the eye of the proconsul, to oversee the administration of justice:...
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    dispatched pro consule, regardless of their last urban magistracy. The titles "proconsul" and "propraetor" are not used by Livy or literary sources of the republican...
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    Cato the Elder (redirect from Cato Major)
    Cato and Scipio which ought to have existed between a quaestor and his proconsul. Fabius had opposed the permission given to Scipio to carry the attack...
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    Julia the Elder (redirect from Julia Major)
    Tiberius' instigation or on the independent initiative of L. Nonius Asprenas, proconsul of Africa. Her daughter Julia died in AD 28, after 20 years of exile;...
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  • Symmachus (att. 28 Aug. 415) Continued as proconsul until the arrival of Metellus in 109 BC. Continued as proconsul until the arrival of his successor Marius...
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    Africa (18 Mya), and in 2011 an exceptionally well preserved skull of Proconsul major. In 2000, Senut, Pickford and their team discovered in Kenya 12 fossil...
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    quelled by the new proconsul of Gaul, C. Nonius Gallus, who is rewarded with the title of imperator ("supreme commander"). The proconsul of Macedonia, M...
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  • 137 to 139. Julius Major concluded his career by holding a proconsulate in 141/142, but opinion is divided whether he was proconsul of Africa or Asia:...
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  • first of three children born at Rome to Gaius Julius Caesar, a future proconsul, and his wife Aurelia. The exact year of Julia's birth is not known, but...
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    zone, and the award of triumphal honours to no less than three Roman proconsuls for successes in the war (implying, in each case, the killing of at least...
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  • latter half of the first century AD, when Lucius Bruttius Maximus was proconsul in Cyprus. The nomen Bruttius probably indicates that the ancestors of...
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    the species of Proconsul were among the 64 and all were given the name africanus, although many were reclassified into nyanzae, major and heseloni later...
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    consul again for 103 BC. Though he could have continued to operate as proconsul, it is likely that the people re-elected him as consul so as to avoid...
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    the unreliable Historia Augusta, there were rumours while Antoninus was proconsul of Asia that Faustina conducted herself with "excessive frankness and...
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    whole Roman world was then at peace. Drusus was granted the office of proconsul for the following year. In 10 BC, the Chatti joined with the Sicambri...
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    tribune, drawn from among the senatorial class of Rome (usually a consul or proconsul), who acted as a second-in-command to the magistrate in charge of the...
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    defender of anybody". In 51 BC he reluctantly accepted a promagistracy (as proconsul) in Cilicia for the year; there were few other former consuls eligible...
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  • consul with Augustus in 29 BC. He then served as proconsul of Hispania in 28 BC, then as proconsul of Asia 23-22 BC. As a result of some unspecified...
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    legions had grown hostile to him because of his harsh rule. He served as proconsul of Africa from 188 to 189, and followed this term of service with the...
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  • an imitation of what Cicero said about the conduct of Verres, a Roman proconsul of Sicily who oppressed Sicilian Roman citizens, who in their desperation...
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