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The 19 pages that link to Roman consul, each with the reason it gives.

• Roman RepublicBroader topic: Collegial rule and short terms were designed to prevent one consul from monopolizing power.

• Roman SenateCompared with: Consuls held executive command, while senators usually advised and negotiated.

• Roman historiographyRelated: Consular names supplied the annual framework for dating Republican events.

• Cassius DioRelated: Dio held the consulship, one of the highest offices in his political career.

• Roman CalendarRelated: Romans commonly identified a year by naming its serving consuls.

• Gaius MariusRelated: Marius’s seven consulships were exceptional and marked his sustained influence in Roman politics.

• Roman emperorCompared with: Consuls shared limited terms and collegial authority, unlike emperors’ long tenure.

• Roman magistrateBroader topic: Consuls exemplified supreme annual executive and military authority.

• First TriumvirateBroader topic: Caesar’s consulship in 59 BCE gave the alliance a route to enact legislation.

• Roman dictatorshipRelated: Consuls normally nominated dictators and yielded precedence to their authority.

• Scipio AemilianusRelated: Scipio received extraordinary consular authority to command in Spain in 134 BCE.

• Cato the ElderBroader topic: Cato held the consulship in 195 BCE and commanded Roman forces in Spain.

• Quintus Curtius RufusRelated: A consul named Quintus Curtius Rufus is known from the imperial period, but his identity as historian is uncertain.

• Lucius Junius BrutusBroader topic: Tradition names Brutus as one of the Republic’s first consuls.

• Marcus Vipsanius AgrippaRelated: Agrippa held the consulship repeatedly, including alongside Augustus in 28 and 27 BCE.

• Lucius Tarquinius SuperbusCompared with: Their annual office contrasts with the monarchy that Superbus supposedly ruled.

• Lucius Quinctius CincinnatusCompared with: The dictator’s concentrated powers contrasted with the consuls’ divided, annually limited authority.

• Overthrow of the Roman monarchyRelated: The consuls replaced the king as Rome’s principal annual magistrates.

• Titus LarciusRelated: Larcius is traditionally recorded as consul in 501 and 498 BCE.