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632 EPISTLE OF S. POLYCARP.
III. p. 384). The inscription (no. 6) given in Lebas and Waddington,
though not correctly, ought to have done something towards clearing
up the matter, but was strangely overlooked. The inscriptions (nos.
2, 3, 4, 5) have been recently discovered, no. 2 having been published for
the first time in
my first edition, nos. 4, 5 subsequently to it.
They are
highly valuable, as supplementing the evidence. The remaining inscription,
no. 10, only refers to our Philip incidentally.
These inscriptions mention three persons, grandfather, father and
son, bearing the same name, Gaius Julius Philippus. The grandfather,
of whose existence inscription (no. 4) has made us aware, is
designated
High-priest of Asia. The father, with whom we are concerned, is
likewise Asiarch or High-priest of Asia. He also bears certain other
local ofiices in connexion with the religious ceremonials and games.
This refers to the reign of Antoninus Pius. In the succeeding reign,
under the joint sovereignty of the brothers M. Aurelius and L. Verus,
he is
procurator (eTrtV/joTros) of the Augusti. He seems to have been
a man of great munificence, and the erection of a monument to
him at Olympia points to benefactions which deserved this recognition.
His local influence and wealth would probably secure the
elevation of his son to the senatorial dignity
— an honour which began
to be accorded more freely to provincials under the Antonines. This
son was also praetor. His honours are evidently regarded as throwing
back a reflected glory on the father. Sterrett {Mittheil. d. Deiitsch.
Archdol. Inst, viii, 1883, p. 322 sq) speaks of the last inscription
given above (no. 10) as belonging to 'the tombstone of C. Julius
Philippus,' apparently meaning the father, of whom alone he is
'
speaking. But how is this reconcilable with the designation a slave '
If I read it rightly, it is the epitaph of one Daduchus (a proper name,
which occurs occasionally elsewhere 3
see C. I. G. Index, p. 81, C. I. L,
VI. 1
67 1 6, Devit Lex. Forcell. Onomast. s. v.
Daduchus), who was the
slave and factor (Trpay/xaTeuTT^s)
'
of C. Julius Philippus the son of the
Asiarch J
and its chief value for our purpose
is as showing that the son
had the same prsenomen (Gaius) with the father ^
1
For SoCXos 7rpa7;UaTeDT-^s comp. C.I. i. p. 100 sq (1885) where inscriptions
G. 3101, and for irpayixaTevT-qs see the numbered above {1) (3) (6) are given. I
Index to C. I. G. pp. 38, 159.
am much pleased to notice that Prof.
"
The error is
tacitly corrected by Dr Ramsay arrives at the same solution, with
Sterrett in an article by him entitled In- regard to the Asiarchate of Philip in
scriptions of Tralleis supplemented by connexion with the date of Polycarp's
Prof. Ramsay and published in Papers of martyrdom, which had commended itself
the American School of Classical Studies to me, and which I have given below.