On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 08:09:21PM -0400, Chris Turkel wrote: > On Tuesday, June 24, 2003, at 11:03 PM, M J wrote: > > >_Always_ two consuls, except for Pompey the Great's year as the > >consul without a colleague, which was mostly to annoy the Boni. > >Julius Caesar himself was a consul twice, and Augustus was, > >technically, elected a consul, although no one would've been caught > >dead running _against_ him. > > Oh thats right! I didn't pay attention to History in college. I thought > after Caesar Augustus they did away with the consuls. Yes, but that was the end of the Republic (well, in *my* book, anyway (not that I've written any books)). During the Republic, there were always supposed to be two consuls. Sometimes one died and for various reasons was not replaced. Pompey was a special case; I don't recall how he pulled it off.