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ROMAN PERSONAL NAMES IN ARGOLIS
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σαρος Λ(ουκίου) Σεπτιμίου Ι 5 Σεβήρου Περτίνακος Ι Σεβαστού υίόν, ή πόλις Ι τον άνείκη-
τον έπί στρατηγού τής πόλεος (sic) Γελλίου τού Αφροδεισίου.
132. ΜΑΝΙΟΣ ΓΕΛΛΙΟΣ ΒΑΣΣΟΣ
/GIV 2 1, 694 (IGW 1417); Peek 1969, 131, no. 303, facsimile [Severan].
Epidauros, sanctuary; an honorary inscription on an exedra erected for Cn. Claudius Leonticus
(ARG 92, text) by Manius Gellius Bassus.
Remarks: For a possible identification of the person see EL 221. In IG IV 1417 the name
appears as [Μαρκ]ος and is identified with certainty with Gellius Bassus, who
introduced a proposal of a decree by the Achaean Koinon in Lykosoura.
ΓΝΑΙΟΣ: see ARG 225
133. ΗΙΟΣ
W. Vollgraff, Mnemosyne47,1919,167, no. 17; id, Mnemosyne 58, 1930,40, n. 13 (SEG 11, 1950,
346); id., "Fouilles et sondages sur le flanc oriental de la Larissa à Argos", BCH 82, 1958,562.
Argos, east slope of Larissa; a fragment of a limestone stele decorated with a relief of a young
man; it bears a funerary epigram for the person, who died in the age of 18 years.
Remarks: Vollgraff had read the name of the deceased first as ΠΙΟΣ and later as ΤΙΤΟΣ; the
latter is to be found in the publications in Mnemosyne 47 and 58 (see above). Later,
after the suggestions of G. Daux, he found the reading ΗΙΟΣ more probable. Mitsos,
176, no. Ill refers to the person as ΤΙΤΟΣ.
*134. Τ(ΙΤΟΣ) ΕΛΟΓΥΙΟΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΑΣ]
M. Mitsos, "Greek inscriptions", Hesperia 16, 1947, 84, no. 2, pi. XIV, no. 2 (AnnÉpigr 1949,
90; SEG 11, 1950, 441) [first half of 1st c. A.D.].
Argos, Hagios Ioannis, in a pile of rocks which came from the excavations; a square altar of
dark stone bearing a dedication to Asclepius by the person, who was a proconsul, possibly of
Achaia:
Τ(ίτος) Έλο[ύιος Βασιλάς(?)] Ι άνθύπα[τος Αχαΐας] Ι Ασκληπ[ιώι— ].
proconsul Achaiae
Remarks: Cf. REG 61, 1943, 153, n. 67 (SEG 11, 1950, 441). For the person see PIR 2 H 67; Κ.
Kadlec, RE Vili 1 (1912), 225, s.v. Helvius [9]; A. Licordari, "Ascesa al senato e
rapporti con i territori d'origine Italia: Regio I (Latium)", EOS II, 23; Thomasson,
199, no. 74; Rémy, Carrières sénatoriales, 140-141, no. 104. Mitsos, op. cit.,
identifies him with a person whose complete name appears in an inscription of Atina
in Latium CIL X 5056. 5057=ILS 977. Mitsos believes that the same person is also
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