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en-wikipedia-org-5564		Roman consul - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	5573	641	63	After the establishment of the Empire (27 BC), the consuls became mere symbolic representatives of Rome's republican heritage and held very little power and authority, with the Emperor acting as the supreme authority. Nevertheless, the office remained largely in the hands of a few families as, according to Gelzer[who?], only fifteen novi homines "new men" with no consular background were elected to the consulship until the election of Cicero in 63 BC.[6] Modern historians have questioned the traditional account of plebeian emancipation during the early Republic (see Conflict of the Orders), noting for instance that about thirty percent of the consuls prior to Sextius had plebeian, not patrician, names. Beginning in the late Republic, after finishing a consular year, a former consul would usually serve a lucrative term as a proconsul, the Roman Governor of one of the (senatorial) provinces. Lists of Roman consuls[edit] "Consuls and Consular Dating in the Later Roman Empire".	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5564.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5564.txt