Like a propraetor, the proconsul was someone who acted as if (pro) he were an official magistrate.
This custom became popular during the war against Hannibal; an innovation was the appointment of private citizens as proconsuls (i.e., people who were not former magistrates).
Under the empire, the governors of the senatorial provinces were usually called proconsuls, although they were in fact former praetors.
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