proconsul

Grenell seemed to think he was some sort of proconsul, rather than an ambassador to a friendly nation.

Caesar's Comments on the Gallic Wars is a good example of how little information travel there was between the proconsul and Rome herself.

Caecilus Niger, Novius Niger, and Trebius Niger who was a proconsul in Spain.

He was a proconsul in command, fully authorized by the Senate.

It's interesting the society you propose for Iraq as a bright new future - total order = totalitarian dictatorship imposed by force by a proconsul directing machines.

He was a Roman proconsul/general fighting in his provinces the way all ancient Roman armies did, and was objectively merciful than most, although fought a much bigger war than most.

He was a Roman proconsul/general fighting in his provinces the way all ancient Roman armies did, and was more inclined toward mercy than most, although he also fought a much bigger war than most.

> Well satisfied with the success of his [Julius Caesar] night expedition he returned [p143] to his friends and, after handing his prisoners into custody, went straight to Bithynia to Juncus, the proconsul — for the same man was governor of Bithynia as well as of Asia — and demanded his sanction for the execution of his captives.

The proconsul/propraetor system, which came about fairly late in the Roman Republic, was an attempt to mitigate this, by providing an on-site official with authority ("imperium").

It seems likely that somewhere, sometime, someone sat around thinking, "My great uncle was proconsul of Cisalpine Gaul, but my grandchildren can't read and are subsistence farmers."

Tertullian, Apologeticum, Chapter 9: "Babes were sacrificed publicly to Saturn in Africa till the proconsulate of Tiberius, who exposed the same priests on the same trees that overshadow the crimes of their temple, on dedicated crosses, as is attested by the soldiery of my father, which performed that very service for that proconsul.