[907] Italia and some foreign country are still consular provinciae in 112 and 111 B.C. (Sall. Jug. 27, 43). When a consul was appointed to one of the old praetorian provinces, he did not supplant the praetor but commanded with and over him.
[908] Liv. xxx. 1 “ut consules inter se compararent sortirenturve.” Cf. ib. xxxii. 8, xxxvii. 1, and the other passages cited in note 3.
[909] ib. viii. 16; cf. Cic. pro Domo 9, 24. In 205 B.C. Scipio was given Sicilia extra sortem because his colleague was pontifex maximus (Liv. xxviii. 38).
[910] Liv. xxi. 17 (218 B.C.) “nominatae jam antea consulibus provinciae erant; tum sortiri jussi.” Cf. ib. xxviii. 38.
[911] Sall. Jug. 27; Cic. pro Domo 9, 24.
[912] Cic. ad Att. viii. 15, 3 “consules quibus more majorum concessum est vel omnes adire provincias.” Lucullus went as consul to Asia in 74 B.C.
[913] p. 153.
[914] That staunch conservative Q. Catulus was wont to reflect with pleasure “non saepe unum consulem improbum, duos vero nunquam, excepto illo Cinnano tempore, fuisse” (Cic. post Red. in Sen. 4, 9). By improbi Catulus meant “radicals.”
[915] The consul was the “legitimus tutor” of the state (Cic. post Red. ad Quir. 5, 11) and “quasi parens bonus aut tutor fidelis” (de Or. iii. 1, 3).
[916] p. 120.