Since Clovis ' name does not appear in the consular lists, it is likely he was granted a suffect consulship.

The proliferation of men carrying the same name can complicate prosopography ; for instance, in the early 1st century BC, three prominent men were named Lucius Valerius Flaccus: the consul of 100 BC, the suffect consul of 86 BC, and the latter's son, who was defended by Cicero ( Pro Flacco ).

He also was suffect consul of 142.

The son Gallus and Vipsania had several sons together, of whom two were full consuls and a third was consul suffect.

During the reign of Alexander Severus, Gordian ( who was by then in his late sixties ), after serving his suffect consulship prior to 223, drew lots for the proconsular governorship of the province of Africa Proconsularis which he assumed in 237.

He was suffect consul and in 250 was nominated governor of the Roman province of Moesia Superior, an appointment that showed the confidence of Emperor Trajan Decius in him.

In 175 he received the honor of a suffect consulship and until 185, Pertinax was governor of the provinces of Upper and Lower Moesia, Dacia, Syria and finally governor of Britain.

Lucius Seius Tubero, who became suffect consul in 18, was probably his son.

Strabo's last wife was Cosconia Gallita, sister of Servius Cornelius Lentulus Maluginensis ( suffect consul in 10 ) and Publius Cornelius Lentulus Scipio ( suffect consul in 2 ), and perhaps half-sister of Quintus Junius Blaesus ( suffect consul in 10 ).

He was a senator under Commodus and governor of Smyrna following the death of Septimius Severus ; he became a suffect consul in approximately the year 205.

The following year, Cincinnatus was elected suffect consul.

By 42, however, he was married to Caecinia Arria, daughter of Caecina Paetus ( suffect consul in 37 ).

Soranus in 52 was suffect consul and ( perhaps in 61 ) proconsul of Asia.

Then in the following year ( 299 BC ), after the Senate considered appointing him dictator for the fourth time, he was elected suffect consul after the death of Titus Manlius Torquatus, who was in command of the Etruscan war.

His last consulship was said to be in 300 BC, with a suffect consulship in 299 BC.

), consul 312 BC, 289 BC per Varro ; possibly he was the consul in 300 BC and suffect consul in 299 BC and also dictator in 301 BC ( the third dictator year ), rather than his father.

Gaius Cestius Gallus ( d. 67 AD ) was the son of a consul in ancient Rome and himself a suffect consul in 42.

He was later assigned as imperial legate to one of the German provinces, most probably after his first suffect consulship, circa 207 AD.

* The biography of Geta states he was born at Mediolanum on 27 May ; the year is not specified but it was ' in the suffect consulships of Severus and Vitellius '.

He was born as the only child of Titus Aurelius Fulvus, consul in 89 whose family came from Nemausus ( modern Nîmes ).

Faustina was the daughter of consul Marcus Annius Verus and Rupilia Faustina ( a half-sister to Roman Empress Vibia Sabina ).

Philippus claimed descent from Alexander the Great, and was elected consul in 56 BC.

Vipsania Agrippina later married senator and consul Gaius Asinius Gallus Saloninus after Tiberius was forced to divorce her and marry Julia the Elder.

According to Suetonius, Domitius was a wealthy man with a despicable and dishonest character, who, according to Suetonius, was “ A man who was in every aspect of his life detestable ", and served as consul in 32.

Crispus was a prominent, influential, witty, wealthy and powerful man, who served twice as consul.

This betrothal was broken off in 48 when Agrippina, scheming with the consul Lucius Vitellius the Elder, the father of the future Emperor Aulus Vitellius, falsely accused Silanus of incest with his sister Junia Calvina.

* The Emperor Nero was born in AD 37 to the Domitius above as Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus ( named after Domitius's father Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus ( consul 16 BC )).

A letter of Leo IV shows that Alfred was made a " consul "; a misinterpretation of this investiture, deliberate or accidental, could explain later confusion.

The Romans were defeated and their commander, the consul Lucius Cassius Longinus was killed in the action.

He was elected as first consul of France on 10 November 1799 with the help of his brother, Lucien Bonaparte, and president of the Council of Five Hundred at Saint-Cloud.

To have held each office at the youngest possible age ( suo anno, " in his year ") was considered a great political success, since to miss out on a praetorship at 39 meant that one could not become consul at 42.

The office of consul was the most prestigious of all, and represented the summit of a successful career.

A consul was escorted by twelve lictors, owned imperium and wore the toga praetexta.

Because the consul was the highest executive office within the Republic, they had the power to veto any action or proposal by any other magistrate, save that of the Tribune of the Plebs.

After a consulship, a consul was assigned one of the more important provinces and acted as the governor in the same way that a Propraetor did, only owning Proconsular imperium.

After a term as consul, the final step in the Cursus Honorum was the office of censor.

In 109 BC, they defeated a Roman army under the consul Marcus Junius Silanus, who was the commander of Gallia Narbonensis.

The same year, they defeated another Roman army under the consul Gaius Cassius Longinus, who was killed at the Battle of Burdigala ( modern day Bordeaux ).

Desperate measures were taken: contrary to the Roman constitution, Gaius Marius, who had defeated Jugurtha, was elected consul and supreme commander for five years in a row ( 104-100 BC ).

The consul Quintus Lutatius Catulus had not dared to fortify the passes, but instead he had retreated behind the River Po, and so the land was open to the invaders.

Bassus was a member of a Campanian senatorial family, a former consul and a proconsul of Africa.

In consequence of the accusation of Claudia Pulchra, and of some offense which he had given to Caligula, he was accused by the emperor in the senate, but by concealing his own skill in speaking, and pretending to be overpowered by the eloquence of Caligula, he not only escaped the danger, but was made consul suffectus in 39 AD.