Word: consulships
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...political situation at Rome in the year of Cicero's consulship...
...other; the enemy has rather to be dexterously avoided than encountered and overthrown. Still it would be idle to pretend that foot ball is a delicate game, or one to be enjoyed without a fair share of hard blows. given and received. Given and received they were, in that consulship of Plancus which every man loves to talk of, with great equanimity and no complaint. It seems now. however, that this too, with so many other things, has been changed at Eton. Walking through the town the other day an old Etonian, who had known Plancus, observed in a shopwindow...
...claims of Private Dalzell for a foreign consulship are being pushed as strongly as possible...
...into the consul's management of affairs, he determined to be precedent, and himself demanded an investigation, appealing to the fair-minded men and women of the city, and challenging to the proof any one who had any charge to make against the consul, touching his fitness for the consulship. The directorate appointed a committee of investigation. But at this point the consul seemed to retreat from the unfamiliar field of open contest, into the haze of secret sessions, and did all he could, through friends, to stifle an investigation...