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ROMAN PELOPONNESE I
Peek, loc. cit.: a. Π. Μέμ[μ]ιον Π. υίόν Ι [Τήγλο]ν ύπατ(ικ)όν, ιερέα Ι [εν τρισί συστ]ή[μ]ασιν Ι
[ίεροσυνών— ]. b. (as Groag).
Thomasson, 191, no. 11 suggests a different restoration of the text: ό π[ρεσβευτής γενόμενος
τω]ν Σεβαστών καί αντιστράτηγος].
The restoration of Groag is based on an honorary inscription for Regulus from Delphi (ILS
8815). About ιερέα έν τρισί συστήμασιν ίερωσυνών, i.e. three colleges that performed the
principal sacrifices, cf. Polyb. XXI. 13, 11:...των τριών έν σύστημα, δι' ων συμβαίνει τάς έπιφανεστάτας
θυσίας έν τη Τώμη συντελεισθαι τοις θεοϊς...
The name of the father of P. Memmius Regulus completed as Caius is a mistake in IG, the
father of the governor of Achaia is Publius.
[2] IG IV 1139; IG IV 2 1, 665 (A. Momigliano, JRS 34, 1944, 115/6; SEG 11, 1950, 445 a);
Peek 1969, 125, no. 289, facsimile, pi. LI, 87-88 [A.D. 35-44].
Epidauros, sanctuary; an exedra erected by T. Statilius Lamprias (II), son of Lamprias (I) and
T. Statilius Teimocrates, son of Lamprias (II), honouring Regulus as benefactor on behalf of
the Achaeans. It bears three honorary inscriptions for Πόπλιον Μέμμιον Ποπλίου υίόν
Τήγλον.
[3] IG IV 1411; IG IV 2 1,669 [A.D. 35-44].
Epidauros, sanctuary; two fragments of a base bearing an honorary inscription for the person:
Π(όπλιον) Μέ[μ]μιον [Ποπλίου υίόν] Ι [Τήγλο]ν ύπατ[ικόν] Ι [— ].
[4] The fragmentary inscription IG IV 2 1, 668 (=JG IV 1414+1412); Peek 1969, 127-8, no. 291,
facsimile, pi. LH, 89 from the sanctuary of Epidauros is completed in IG as:
[Ά πόλις τών Έπιδαυρ]ίων τ[ούς εύεργέτας γενομένους Γναιον Πο]πλίλιον τ[όν] πρεσβε[υτάν
καί Γναιον Μέμμι]ον Τήγλον [τον ά]ντιστρ[άταγον].
According to Thomasson 191, no. 11 the inscription is an honorary one for P. Memmius
Regulus and his name should not be completed as [Γναιον Μέμμι]ον Τήγλον but [Πόπλιον
Μέμμι]ον Τήγλον. Groag, Reichsbeamten, 26 finds the restoration of the name of Regulus not
convincing and believes that this inscription has nothing to do with him. Peek restores the text
as: [Ά πόλις τών Έπιδαυρ]ίων Γ[ναιον Πο]πλίλιον Γ[άίου υί]όν Τήγλον and believes that
this fragment does not belong to an inscription in honour of Memmius Regulus. Lapis III of the
publication in IG is, according to Peek, an independent fragment, which is to be restored as: [Π.
Μέμμιον Π. υίόν Τήγλον] Ι [ύπατικόν], πρεσβε[υτήν Σε]Ι[βαστών ά]ντιστρ[άτηγον ].
Remarks: P. Memmius Regulus was the first member in his family to enter the senate under
Tiberius. He held then the office of quaestor and directly after that became praetor
(cf. M. Cébeillac, Les quaestores principis et candidati aux 1er et Hième siècles de
l'empire [Milano 1972] 29-30). In A.D. 31 he held the consulate (Degrassi, Fasti
consolari, 10, no. 784), since he was a confident of the emperor, who already suspected
the conspiracy of Seianus. In A.D. 35 he succeded Poppaeus Sabinus as legatus Augusti
pro praetore and governed Moesia, Macedonia and Achaia until A.D. 44. The large
number of honorary inscriptions erected by many Greek cities and individuals for him
and his son, who accompanied him, indicate his popularity. The many Memmii
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