STRONGS G446:
ἀνθύπατος,
-ου,
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 Proconsul; Alex.'s Kitto under the word Province; especially Bp. Lightfoot in The Contemp. Rev. for 1878, p. 289f.]
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