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ROMAN PELOPONNESE I
*49. Μ(ΑΡΚΟΣ) ΑΥΡ(ΗΛΙΟΣ) ΟΛΥΜΠΙΟΔΩΡΟΣ
IG IV 796 [end 2nd/begin. 3rd c. A.D.; before Alexander Severus].
Troizen, "ohm in aedicula ruinosa Hagii Nicolai, cuius possessor Dimitri Paschos"; a large
statue base erected by the city of Troizen for M. Aurelius Olympiodorus with the consent of
the boule and the demos:
Αγαθήι [τύχηι·] Ι Μ(άρκον) Αύρ(ήλιον) Όλυμπιόδωρον τον φιλόσοφον, Ι ή λαμπρότατη
Τροιζηνίων πόλις, τειμηΐθέντα λογιστέα ύπό τής βασιλείας Ι 5
εις δεκαετίαν. Ι Ψ(ηφίσματι)
β(ουλής), δ(ήμου).
philosopher, logistes
Remarks: Λογιστής is the Greek equivalent of the Latin curator rei publicae, which later is to
be found as curator civitatis, see Mason, 66 and for the office see W. Liebenam,
Philologus 56, 1897, 290-325; E. Kornemann, RE IV 2 (1901) 1807-1811, s.v.
curatores; Fr. Preisigke, REXUl 1 (1926) 1020-1021, s.v. λογιστής; Th. Mommsen,
Römisches Staatsrecht 2 (Graz 1969, repr. of the third edition) 1081 [1033] ff.; C.
Lucas, "The Curatores Rei Publicae of Roman Africa", JRS 30, 1940, 56-74; G.P.
Burton, "The curator rei publicae", Chiron 9, 1979, 465-88; M. Sartori,
"Osservazioni sul ruolo del curator rei publicae", Athenaeum 11, 1989, 5-21. About
curatores in Western provinces see particularily F. Jacques, Les curateurs des cités
dans l'Occident Romain de Trajan à Gallien (Paris 1983) and id., Le privilège de
liberté. Politique impériale et autonomie municipale dans les cités de l'Occident
romain (161-244), (Paris 1984).
The curatores were not citizens of the city where they held their office; this changed
around the reign of Alexander Severus (A.D. 222-235). So M. Aurelius
Olympiodorus, who does not seem to be a Troizenian, is to be dated before this time.
E. Guerber-M. Sartre, "Un logistès à Canatha (Syrie)", ZPE 120, 1998, 95 refer to
Olympiodorus as a citizen of Larissa and cite by mistake V. Bérard, "Tégée et la
Tégéatide", BCH 17 (erroneously 18 in the paper of E. Guerber-M. Sartre), 1893, 11,
where there is no comment on Olympiodorus but on the curator of Tegea M.
Appalenus (see ARC 8). H. Müller, "Marcus Aurelius Olympiodorus, έκγονος Ιπποδρόμου",
ZPE 3, 1968, 197-220 discusses and rejects the identification of the logistes
of Troizen with the homonymous son of the sophist Hippodromus of Larissa.
50. ΑΥΡ(ΗΛΙΟΣ) ΦΙΑΟ[ΥΜ]ΕΝΟΣ
W. Vollgraff, BCH21, 1903, 268, no. 21 [3rd c. A.D.].
Argos, in a cistern "sur le versant S.O. de l'Aspis, au N.E. de l'église byzantine"; a fragmentary
limestone stele, which also bears an inscription of the 3rd c. B.C.
51. ΑΥΡ(ΗΛΙΟΣ) ΠΛΗΣΜΩΝ
[1]/GIV 1157;/GIV 2 1,610; Peek 1969, 118, no. 262, facsimile [A.D. 197-198: from the titles
of the emperors].
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