A proconsul was typically a former consul. There, Sergius Paulus, the Roman proconsul, was converted after Saul rebuked the Sorcerer Elymas. It was a Senatorial province governed by a proconsul. Hadrumetum revolted while Vespasian was proconsul of Africa. He was appointed governor of the imperial province of Syria and the proconsul of Asia. The proconsul of Africa forwarded Diocletian an anxious inquiry on the Manichees. AD, before Claudius Maximus, proconsul of Africa. It possessed a proconsul, rather than an urban prefect. He took refuge with Aulus Gabinius, the Roman proconsul and governor of Syria. Lepidus was rewarded with the position of proconsul in the Spanish province of Hispania Citerior. Publius Licinius Crassus, the other by the proconsul Q. Caecilius. Afterwards, he governed Bithynia and succeeded Pertinax as the proconsul of North Africa. Tertullian declares, "in a word, we fear God, not the proconsul". Marcus Tullius Cicero was the Quaestor to the Propraetor/Proconsul of Sicily. One of Maximus's daughters may have been married to Ennodius, proconsul Africae (395).