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ROMAN PERSONAL NAMES IN ARGOLIS
Epidauros, sanctuary, in front of the temple of Asclepius; a statue base erected by the polis of
Epidauros bearing two honorary inscriptions, one for Sodamus, son of Damophanes (IG IV 2
1, 650), and one for the person discussed here:
Ά πόλις ά τών Έπιδαυρίων Ι Νικάταν Σωδάμου Ι Έπιδαύριον άριστα Ι πολειτευόμενον.
[2] IG IV 1431; IG IV 2 1, 652; Peek 1969, 124 [under Augustus].
Epidauros, sanctuary; a stone of an exedra bearing an honorary inscription for the named
person:
Α πόλις τών Έπιδαυρίων Γναίον Ι Κορνήλιον Σωδάμου υίόν ΝικάΙταν, ιερέα τοΰ Σεβαστού
ΚαίσαΙρος δίς, άγωνοθετήσαντα πρώΙ 5 τον τά Άπολλωνίεια καί ΑσκλαΙπίεια κτίσαντά τε
τ[άν] ΚαισαΙρείων πανάγυριν καί αγώνας Ι καί πρώτον άγωνοθετήσαντα, Ι άρετάς ένεκεν
καί εύνοιας Ι 10 τάς εις αύτάν.
[3] IG IV 1432; IG IV 2 1, 653; cf. Peek 1969, 124, no. 284 [1st c. A.D., before A.D. 32/33].
Epidauros, sanctuary; a stone of an exedra bearing an honorary inscription for the son of the
person, Γναίον Κορνήλιον Γναίου Ι υίόν Ποϋλχρον (text ARG 116 [2]).
twice priest of Caesar Augustus, agonothetes of Apolloneia and Asclapeia and founder and
agonothetes of the Caesareia games
Remarks: He is connected with the addition of Caesareia to the already existing
Apolloneia and Asclapeia games at the beginning of the imperial period (cf. [2]).
During this feast his son Cn. Cornelius Pulcher (ARG 116), who was then just four
years old, held the offices of gymnasiarch and agoranomos. The addition of the
Caesareia games is dated by L. Robert, AE 1969, 54 (OMS VII, 760) in A.D. 32 or
33. This cannot be right according to M. Sève, "Les concours d'Épidaure", REG 106,
1993, 314 n. 44, because in [2] Nikatas appears as a twice priest of Σεβαστός
Καίσαρ, which means that Augustus was still alive.
f. Cn. Cornelius Cn. f. Pulcher (ARG 116); for a stemma of the family see Appendix, Stemma
IV. His great grandson is Γν. Κορνήλιος Τιβερίου Φαβία Πούλχρος (ARG 117).
115. ΓΝ(ΑΙΟΣ) ΚΟΡΝΗΛΙΟΣ ΦΙΛΙΣΚΟΣ
/GIV 795 (SEG 35, 1985, 313) [ca. A.D. 114].
Troizen, earlier in the place of the "mensa sacra" of the church of Hagia Sotira; a marble base
erected for Cn. Cornelius Pulcher by his friend Cn. Cornelius Philiscus (text ARG 117 [1]).
116. ΓΝΑΙΟΣ ΚΟΡΝΗΛΙΟΣ ΓΝΑΙΟΥ ΥΙΟΣ ΠΟΥΛΧΡΟΣ
[1] IG IV 2 1, 101,1. 45, 47; *Peek, 1969, 40, no. 45 (publishes 1. 41-48) [έτους τρίτου καί έξη-
κοστού=Α.ϋ. 32/33 (era of Actium)].
Epidauros, sanctuary; a list of victors of the games Apolloneia, Asclapeia and Caesareia. The
person won in two games: 1. 45 [άρμα]τι τελέψ· Γναίος Κορνήλιος Πούλχερ and 1. 47 συνω-
ρί τελεία· Γναιος Κορνήλιος [Πούλ]χερ.
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