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<p>[QUOTE="curtislclay, post: 4627726, member: 89514"]Doug,</p><p><br /></p><p>The consulship was assumed for a calendar year or, under the empire, often for just part of a year. So if Niger indeed assumed his second consulship in the course of 193, he wouldn't automatically have become COS III on 1 Jan. 194, but would have had to be elected / selected again to fill that office in the new year.</p><p><br /></p><p>Niger would presumably have been consul alone in 193; I don't think we hear of any colleague for Nero in 68, and Pompey was certainly sole consul in 52 BC. Niger, postulating that he became COS II in the course of 193, would probably have had two of his supporters serve as consuls in Syria from 1 Jan. 194 on, but I don't believe we know who they were. Presumably Septimius would have had them put to death after defeating Niger at Issus later in 194.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="curtislclay, post: 4627726, member: 89514"]Doug, The consulship was assumed for a calendar year or, under the empire, often for just part of a year. So if Niger indeed assumed his second consulship in the course of 193, he wouldn't automatically have become COS III on 1 Jan. 194, but would have had to be elected / selected again to fill that office in the new year. Niger would presumably have been consul alone in 193; I don't think we hear of any colleague for Nero in 68, and Pompey was certainly sole consul in 52 BC. Niger, postulating that he became COS II in the course of 193, would probably have had two of his supporters serve as consuls in Syria from 1 Jan. 194 on, but I don't believe we know who they were. Presumably Septimius would have had them put to death after defeating Niger at Issus later in 194.[/QUOTE]
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