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Definition of Legateships
1. legateship [n] - See also: legateship
Lexicographical Neighbors of Legateships
Literary usage of Legateships
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages: Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor, Ralph Francis Kerr, Frederick Ignatius Antrobus (1908)
"... their titular churches and commends, their position towards their relations,
their legateships, their residential and discretionary duties. ..."
2. Outlines of Roman History by Henry Francis Pelham (1893)
"Though the highest posts in that service, the legateships, were filled by senators,
and the lowest by freedmen or slaves, ..."
3. Facing the Twentieth Century: Our Country: Its Power and Peril by James Marcus King (1899)
"There are also in a number of missionary countries, «. g., nt Constantinople, in
Egypt, in Greece, etc., apostolic delegations or legateships permanently ..."
4. The Student's Roman Empire: A History of the Roman Empire from Its by John Bagnell Bury (1893)
"... which were more closely connected with the Emperor personally, were given to
knights. The legateships of legions, however, were reserved for senators; ..."
5. History of Rome and the Roman People: From Its Origin to the Establishment by Victor Duruy (1886)
"... and legateships suggests that the public service would suffer from it ; but
the governors liad at hand, besides their assessors and friends, ..."
6. The Governors of Moesia by Selatie Edgar Stout (1911)
"Our governor's consulship would come between his legateships in Lusi- tania and
Moesia since Lusitania was a praetorian and Moesia a 124 The Chronicle has ..."
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