Senatorian

If a man of senatorian rank should marry a woman of libertine condition, she would not be his wife while he retained his dignity, but she would nevertheless be in a condition to become his wife, if he should lose it.

1832-1834, Thomas De Quincey, "The Caesars", in Blackwood's Magazine within the senatorian jurisdiction, these governors, with the title of Proconsuls, were to have no military power whatsoever