Rom. Antiq. [ad. L. suffectus, pa. pple. of sufficĕre to substitute (see SUFFICE).] Applied to the office of those additional consuls (or to the consuls themselves) who were elected, as under the Empire, during the official year. Also sb., a consul suffect.
1862. Merivale, Rom. Emp., lxvi. VII. 410, note. The innovation of the suffect consulship.
1883. Athenæum, 3 March, 286/2. T. Sextius Africanus, a colleague of Ostorius Scapula in the suffect consulate A.D. 59.
a. 1908. C. Bigg, Orig. Christianity, xi. (1909), 122. Granianus and Fundanus had been consuls suffect.
1913. G. Edmundson, Ch. Rome 1st C., 252. The names … of the three suffects for 93 A.D. have been preserved.
