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Strong's #446 - ἀνθύπατος
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- a proconsul
- the emperor Augustus divided the Roman provinces into senatorial and imperial. The former were governed by proconsuls; the later by legates of the emperor, sometimes called propraetors
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ἀνθῠπᾰτ-ος, ὁ,
I proconsul, Lat. pro consule, Plb. 28.5.6, Acts 13:7, etc., freq. in Inscrr. as SIG 684.3, and Pap. as Sammelb. 3924.32 (i A. D.); στρατηγὸς ἀ. SIG 704 K, etc.
II as Adj., proconsular, ἐξουσία D.H. 9.16; ἀρχή Id. 11.62.
ἀνθύπατος, ἀνθυπάτου, ὁ (see the preceding word), proconsul: Acts 13:7, 8, 12; Acts 18:12 L T Tr WH; Acts 19:38. The emperor Augustus divided the Roman provinces into senatorial and imperial. The former were presided over by proconsuls; the latter were administered by legates of the emperor, sometimes called also propraetors. (Polybius, Dionysius Halicarnassus, Lucian, Plutarch, and often in Dio Cassius) (B. D. under the word
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ἀνθύπατος -ου , ὁ
(ἀντί , ὕπατος , altern. for ὑπέρτατος ),
supreme, a consul, one acting in place of a consul, a proconsul, the administrator of a senatorial province (cf. ἡγεμών , and v. MM, VGT, 44): Acts 13:7-8; Acts 13:12; Acts 18:12; Acts 19:38.†
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Syll 656.2 (ii/A.D.) presents Gaius Papillius Carus Pedo ἀνθύπατος replying to a resolution of the Ephesian Βουλή, who had referred him to his predecessors’ practice (τοὺς πρὸ ἐμ [οῦ ] κρατίστους ἀνθυπάτονς). Ib. 316.8 (ii/B.C.) has Q. Fabius Q. f. Maximus, ἀνθύπατος Ῥωμαίων, addressing the authorities of a town in Achaia. So passim, except in Egypt : since this country was governed by a prefect, we do not hear of proconsuls in the papyri.
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