however, was not enough.  It was his object to curtail the powers of every magistrate.  And therefore, though the consulate was not dangerous to the Senate in the sense that the tribunate was, he laid hands both on it and on the praetorship. [Sidenote:  Previous powers of the two offices.] The functions of the consuls and praetors had hitherto been these.  The consuls had the general superintendence of all except judicial matters at home, and the military superintendence in all the provinces except Sicily, Sardinia, and the two Spains, in which they only occasionally exercised their imperium.  One praetor, the Praetor Urbanus, presided over civil suits between Roman citizens.  Another, the Praetor Peregrinus, superintended such suits between a citizen and an alien or between two aliens.  The other four were over the four above-mentioned provinces.  In case of need one man could do the work both of the Praetor Urbanus and the Praetor Peregrinus, leaving his colleague free for a military command.  Or the consul or praetor might have his term of office extended, being bound to continue in his command till a successor arrived.  Or one consul might manage the ordinary functions of both, and the other be similarly left free for some special employment.  The Senate could in any given year assign, as business to be superintended by a consul or a praetor, some military command or judicial commission, and then the consuls or praetors had to settle by lot or by agreement who should undertake it.  As the State grew greater these special assignations had to be made oftener. [Sidenote:  The new scheme.] There had been eight officials for eight offices; now five new superintendents had to be provided for Asia, Africa, Macedonia, Narbo, and Cilicia, as well as one for the Quaestio de Repetundis.  To enable eight men to do the work of fourteen the Senate made prolongation of office for a second year the rule, and the officials confined by the nature of these duties to the city during these years of office were generally sent at the end of it to the transmarine provinces where most money was to be made.  Sulla increased the six praetors to eight, and made the two years’ term of office the legal term.  But if this added to their power in appearance, he diminished it in reality by separating the civil from the military functions altogether.  The consuls and praetors were to manage the civil business of Rome.  The proconsuls and propraetors were to command the army.  In the first year of office the two consuls had the general administration of Rome, and two of the praetors its judicial administration.  The other six presided over the various courts.  In the second the ten exercised the imperium in Sicily, Sardinia, the two Spains, Asia, Africa, Macedonia, Cilicia, and the two Gauls, and none of them might stay in his province beyond thirty days after his successor’s arrival; or, under penalties for treason, might leave his province during his term; or attack a foreign power without express leave from