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Roman History. In the Roman Republic: an officer, usually an ex-consul, who acted as governor or military commander of a province and who had most…
Used as an equivalent for Latin legatus, proconsul, suffectus, Greek ἡγεμών. Obsolete.
A Roman proconsul. Obsolete.