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ROMAN PELOPONNESE I
*90. ΓΠΒ(ΕΡΙΟΣ) ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΣ ΦΡΟΝΤΕΙΝΟΣ]
IG IV 588 (SEG 11, 1950, 324) [ca. A.D. 175].
Argos, "in lapide prope forum"; honorary inscription, probably erected by the polis of Argos,
for Tib. Claudius Quirina Frontinus Niceratus, son of the named person (text ARG 91).
Messenian
Remarks: For the person see PIR 1 C 872; Halfmann, Senatoren, 174, no. 93. For the date of
the inscription see ARG 91.
*91. [ΤΙΒ(ΕΡΙΟΣ) ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΣ TIBEPIOY ΦΡΟΝΤΕΙΝΟΥ ΥΙΟΣ ΚΥΡΕΙΝΑ ΦΡΟΝΤΕΙΝΟΣ]
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IG IV 588 (SEG 11, 1950, 324) [ca. A.D. 175].
Argos, "in lapide prope forum"; honorary inscription, probably erected by the polis of Argos
with the consent of the boule, for Tib. Claudius Quirina Frontinus Niceratus:
[Ή πόλις ή τών Αργείων Τιβέριον] Ι [Κλαύδιον Τιβερίου Φροντείνου υίόν, Κυρείνα Φρο-
ντεινον] Ι Νεική[ρατ]ο[ν, σ]ό[δαλ]ιν Άδ[ρι]Ι[ά]να[λ]ιν, τών [δέ]κα ανδρών Ι τών τά φονι[κ]ά
δικασάνΙτων, χειλίαρχ[ο]ν πλατύΙ 5 σημον λε[γι]ώνος δ' ΦλαΙ[ου]ίας, ταμίαν καί
άντιστράΙτηγον έπαρχείας Αχαΐας, Ι επί τών υπομνημάτων της συγκλήτου, κανδίδαΙ 10 τον
αύτοκράτορος Μ(άρκου) ΑύρηΙλίου Αντωνείνου Αυγούστου Ι Γερμανικού, άγορανόμον Ι
κουρούλλιον, στρατηγόν Ι 'Ρωμαίων, δικαιοσύνης ένεΙ 15 κεν καί άγνότητος τον Ι εαυτής
εύεργέτην Ι Ψ(ηφίσματι) Β(ουλής).
Messenian
sodalis Hadrianalis, Xvir stlitibus iudicandis, tribunus laticlavius legionis IVFlaviae, quaestor pro
praetore provinciae Achaiae, ab actis senatus, candidatus imperatoris, aedilis curulis, praetor.
Remarks: The person is known also from inscriptions from Sparta, Messene and Abellinum.
He was a Messenian from a rich, aristocratic and senatorial family (see also MES
s.v.). His father Ti. Claudius Frontinus, son of the high priest of the imperial cult and
helladarch Ti. Claudius Saethida Caelianus, was the first Messenian senator; his
career includes also the consulship and is to be dated under Antoninus Pius and
Marcus Aurelius (PIR 1 C 872; Halfmann, Senatoren, 174, no. 93; J.H. Oliver, EOS
II, 595 and 601). It is unknown whether the person discussed here was also consul.
His offices, as presented in the Argive inscription, were Xvir stlitibus iudicandis,
tribunus militum legionis IV Flaviae, quaestor pro praetore provinciae Achaiae, ab
actis senatus, aedilis curulis, candidatus of the Emperor M. Aurelius Antoninus,
praetor. For him see PIR 2 C 873; Groag, Reichsbeamten, 120; Halfmann, Senatoren,
196, no. 126.
Mitsos, 105 dates the inscription about A.D. 178, but the date ca. A.D. 175 is
preferable, since we know that he may have been praetor in A.D. 174/5 (Halfmann);
for the family see M. Cébeillac, Les quaestores principis et candidati aux 1er et
Ilième siècles de l'empire (Milano 1972) 209-210; G. Alföldy, Konsulat und
Senatorenstand unter der Antoninen (Bonn 1977) 85 n. 49, 193.
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