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Author(s): H. Dessau
Source: The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 3, Part 2 (1913), pp. 301-309
Published by: Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies
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By PROFESSOR
H. DESSAU.
The times are long past in which Latin epigraphy was a body of
esoteric knowledge, and only the veteran Bartolomeo Borghesi, on
the heights of San Marino, was competent to help Italian and
German scholars out of their difficulties, to clear up the abbrevia-
tions used in the inscriptions, to explain the peculiarities of the
official careers which obtained in the Roman empire, and to
distinguish proconsuls, procurators, legati, and curatores. Thanks
to the work of two generations of enquirers, these details, if not
yet exactly common knowledge, are certainly more or less familiar
to many, and there is no lack of students, old and young, who can
interpret correctly a 'cursus honorum' of the empire. That which
I have to consider here, incomplete as it is, offers, however, peculiar
difficulties, and I fear that some of them will remain unsolved until
Sir William or one of his pupils or colleagues succeeds in tracing
the lost parts of the inscription.
1 am indebted to an English friend for the translation of this article from its original German.
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1 See Inscr. sel. 971 (Claudius), 1043 (Trajan) 8902; Inscr. sel. I45I. For ordinary examples of a
and C.I.L. vi, 2122 (Tiberius). The reges Cutrio, see 233, 1064, II64, 5009.
mentioned in Inscr. sel. 4016, 4942, 6196 and 4 Eph. cpigr. iii, 302, p. 520.
5 Since I wrote the above, Sir William has told
6607 belong to small towns (especially old settle-
ments in the neighbotrhood of Ronme)and not to me that at this point of the stone it was especially
Rome itself. No. 4941 is uncertain. lifficult to be sure of the punctuation marks.
2 Inscr. sel. 964, 1028. 6 C.I.L. vi,
2z65, col. ii, v, 51, Henzen, Acta
3 See
Eph. Epigr. ix, 897 = Inscr. sel. 901 ; fratrsssms Arvaliumn, p. cxx. The rest of the boy's
Wiener Studien, xxv (1903), 326 = Inscr. sel. name is not preserved on the stone.
1 For the inscription see Jahreshefte des osterr. on, since there were many more than two consuls a
archaeol.Instituts, i (1898), app. p. 76, and Heberdey, year.
ibid. viii (I905), p. 235, note 7. For the coins, 4For the former see Inscr. sel. I062, and
Catal. of Greek coins in the British Museum, Ionia, Prosopogr. ii, p. 293, no. 222, and iii, p. 26I, no. 602;
p. IIo, and Prosopogr.Imp. Rom. i, p. 292, no. 285. for the latter, ibid. iii, p. I66, no. 103.
5 Wroth, Greek coins of Galatia and Cappadocia,
2 Catal.
of Greek coins, lonia, p. I I I; Prosopogr.
i, p. 266, no. I38. p. 95-
3 So
Heberdey, Jahreshefte, viii, 236. The 6 Babelon and Reinach, Recueil general des
interval naturally tended to increase as time went monnaies grecques d'Asie mineure, i, p. Ioz, no. I.
1 Inscr. sel. 1054; times it was used for convenience in dating, etc.
Prosopogr. ii, p. 31, no. 4;
Cagnat, Anneegpigraphique,I9II, no. II. But so formal and prominenta mention as would
2Prosopogr. ii, p. 27, no. 156. No doubt the have to be assumed here is unparalleled in Trajan's
hated name sometimesescapederasure,and some- reign.