id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5904 Promagistrate - Wikipedia .html text/html 4371 539 62 In ancient Rome a promagistrate (Latin: pro magistratu) was an ex-consul or ex-praetor whose imperium (the power to command an army) was extended at the end of his annual term of office or later. In 227 BC, after the annexation of the first two Roman provinces, (Sicilia in 241 BC and Corsica et Sardinia in 238 BC), two praetors were added to the two praetors who acted as chief justices in the city of Rome and were assigned the administration of these two provinces. The Romans began to extend the imperium of the consuls and the praetors in Rome at the end of their annual term. In 81 BC Lucius Cornelius Sulla added two new praetors so that two proconsuls and six propraetors could be created to govern the ten provinces Rome had acquired by then. In 27 BC, when Augustus established rule by emperors, the provinces of the Roman Empire were divided into imperial provinces and senatorial provinces. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5904.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5904.txt