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LETTER OF THE SMYRN^ANS. 633<br />

But what shall we say as to the date of the Asiarchate of this Philip<br />

the Trallian We shall see in the next chapter that on entirely independent<br />

grounds the date of Polycarp's martyrdom<br />

has been fixed at<br />

A.D. 155. Is this reconcilable with the notices of Philip<br />

Now the Olympian inscription (no. i)<br />

calls him Asiarch in the<br />

232nd Olympiad; and the beginning of this Olympiad was a.d. 149.<br />

If therefore the martyrdom is correctly dated a.d. 155, we might suppose<br />

that Philip was Asiarch more than once. This is the view of<br />

Lipsius {Jahrb.f. Protest. Thcol. 1881, p. 575). Examples are found of<br />

persons holding the office twice and even three times (in. p. 414).<br />

This solution is<br />

unobjectionable in itself, but does not seem to be<br />

necessary.<br />

In the four Trallian inscriptions (nos. 2, 3, 4, 6), belonging to the<br />

reign of Antoninus Pius, he is styled High-priest of Asia. These are<br />

dated the 56th (Trallian) Olympiad. Unfortunately we do not know<br />

from what point of time these Trallian Olympiads were reckoned.<br />

Evidently they did not follow the computation usual in Asia Minor,<br />

which starts from the Sullan era b.c. 85 ;<br />

for the 56th Olympiad would<br />

not then fall within<br />

the reign of Antoninus Pius, but within that of his<br />

predecessor. A solution however is<br />

suggested by<br />

inscription {Bulletin de Corresp. Hellen. 1881, p. 325 sq):<br />

ANATe]9eNTA<br />

.<br />

YHO<br />

another Trallian<br />

.<br />

0e[oY . ANTOONjeiNOY . GK . TOjN . [...n]6-<br />

pCON . AlONYCION . AAOAlKeA . NeiKH[cANTA . hJaiAOON . nYf"<br />

MHN . . h' .<br />

oAYM[niAAA] META . THN .<br />

ANANe[ooCIN . AJpXiepA-<br />

TeYONTOC<br />

.<br />

[kaI AroONJoeeTOYNTOC TO . . . .<br />

[B' AYP . ]<br />

AHO-<br />

Aoom'Aoy<br />

.<br />

i6po[KAeoYc]<br />

.<br />

nApAAoSoY<br />

•<br />

[aJAytap^oyntoc<br />

.<br />

CelTOY [a<br />

.<br />

eJYApeCTOY . [eniM6AH]96NTOC . toon . ANAp[lAN-<br />

TcoN .<br />

t]oy . Apxiepeooc.<br />

This is the same inscription which is<br />

given less correctly<br />

in Boeckh<br />

C. I. G. 2934, Lebas and Waddington no. 611 (comp. 1652 c).<br />

Here Antoninus Pius is no longer ^etoTaros but 6eo9. He has<br />

therefore died and been deified meanwhile. But the monument was<br />

erected by him. Therefore his death must have occurred during its<br />

erection. This fixes it to a.d. 161, in the March of which year he<br />

died. But it is erected in commemoration of a victory obtained at<br />

'<br />

the 8th Olympiad after the Restoration,' presumably in the earlier part<br />

of the same year, when the monument was erected. We have therefore<br />

to deduct 8 X 4 = 32 years from a.d. 161 for the era of the Restoration.<br />

This gives us a.d. 129; which year we know from other

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