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ROMAN PERSONAL NAMES IN ARGOLIS
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restored by Kent as a duplicate of the Argive inscription. The person is also
honoured in Sparta, LAC 645 (ABSA 26, 1923/5, 209 [SEG 11, 1950, 778]) as
[έ]πτροπον Σε[βαστοϋ].
There are several members of his family who held important offices in the Roman
state: Prifernius Paetus Memmius Apollinaris was honoured with the same military
decorations for his activity in the Dacian war (ILS 1350) and T. Prifernius Paetus
Rosianus Geminus may have been consul of the year A.D. 100 and governor of
Achaia under Hadrian (cf. ACH 190).
For the person see Groag, Reichsbeamten, 143-144; Pflaum, Carrières , 167 f., no.
72; D. Hennig, Gnomon 52, 1980, 347 sq.; Devijver, Ρ 72 (see also IV, Ρ 72); PIR 2
Ρ 935 with stemma. Dabrowa, op. cit., corrects the account of his career, refering
also to the information of Corinth VIII. 3, 134 (cf. SEG 45, 1995, 259).
214. ΣΕΚ(ΣΤΟΣ) ΠΟΜ(ΠΩΝΙΟΣ) ΙΛΑΡΙΑΝΟΣ ΑΛΚΑΣΤΟΥ
IG IV 1279; IG IV 2 1, 511; comment in ZG V 1 p. XVII 11. 100-103; cf. Peek 1969, 104, no.
206, who mentions that the inscription is engraved on a trapeza in secondary use [2nd c. A.D.].
Epidauros, sanctuary; a dedication to the Dioscuri:
Πλω[τήρ]ιοιν Ι Διοσκούροιν Ι Σέκ(στος) Πομ(πώνιος) Ίλαριανός Ι Άλκάστου
ΛακεδαιμόΙνιος κατ' οναρ.
Lacedaemonian
Remarks: Bradford, 205. Box, JRS 21, 1931, 214 η. 5 correctly observes that the usual
praenomen for Pomponius in Spartan inscriptions is Caius (cf. the stemma of the
Pomponii in IG V 1, p. 131), except for Sex. Pomponius Hilarianus. The
abbreviation ΠΟΜ could be completed Πομ(πήιος) as well, which would fit the
praenomen Sextus even better, but the name Alcastus at Sparta is closely linked to
the gentilicium Pomponius (LAC 641 - 642, C. Pomponii Alcastoi I. II).
Chronologically it is very likely that the person was the son of C. Pomponius
Alcastus (I) (LAC 641); for a stemma of the family see A.J.S. Spawforth, ABSA 80,
1985, 242, table 4.
215. [- - - ΠΟΜ]ΠΩΝΙΟΣ ΣΕΟΥΗΡΟΣ
IG IV 1275; IG IV 2 1, 575; Peek 1969, 111, no. 240, facsimile [2nd c. A.D.(?)].
Epidauros, sanctuary; a dedication to Demeter Carpophores (?): [—]OIOY.I [- - Πομ]πώνιος
Σεουήρος I— αστός AC\[.]OC I [—] άνέθηκεν .
Remarks: According to Peek, the name is to be completed as [Γ. Πομ]πώνιος Σεουήρος. The
following text, according to IG, should be read as - - - ΑΣΤΟΣ ΑΣ\ΟΣ, and
completed as [ΒΛ]ΑΣΤΟΣ ΑΣΑ[Ι]ΟΣ. J.R. Wiseman, The land of the ancient
Corinthians, Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, vol. 50 (Göteborg 1978) 111,
no. 17 (SEG 28, 1978,403) suggests that the ethnikon "Άσαϊος may refer to the town
in Corinthia. Peek completes [πυρο]φορήσας τό ια' έ[τ]ος, which seems more
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