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σαντα, Ι 5 άριστα πολειτευόμεΐνον.
ROMAN PERSONAL NAMES IN ARGOLIS
[9] IG IV 2 1, 681; cf. Peek 1969, 130, no. 297 [1st c. A.D.].
Epidauros, sanctuary; a statue base decorated with a cymatium erected for the son of the
person by the brother of his mother Teimosthenis, L. Volussenus Aristocrates of Sparta. The
name of the person discussed here is attested as ΤειΙμοκράτους (text ARG 242).
Remarks: The date of [1] is disputed. B. Keil, "Beiträge zur Geschichte des Areopags",
Berichte über die Verhandlungen der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu
Leipzig, Phil.-Hist. Kl. 71, 1919, Heft 8, 3 dated the inscription IG IV 2 1, 82 in the
time of Nero, followed by A. Momigliano, 1RS 34, 1944, 115-6; P. Graindor,
"Chronologie des archontes athéniens sous l'empire", Mémoires publiés par la
Classe des lettres et des sciences morales et politiques de Ρ Académie royale de
Belgique. Collection in quarto, deuxième Série, VIII 1921, no. 41 bis, p. 71-74 and
309 argues for a date "vers l'époque de Claude". Groag, Reichsbeamten, 28-29
interprets the phrase ...μετά τό τήν έλευθερίαν ήμεΐν άποδοθήναι... as an allusion of
the beneficial government of Memmius Regulus. J.H. Oliver, "On the Athenian
decrees for Ulpius Eubiotus", Hesperia 20, 1951, esp. 351, n. 1; id., Hesperia 47,
1978, 187-8 suggests a grant of liberty to the Panachaeans under Tiberius on the
basis of evidence from the cycle of Athenian secretaries, since Timocrates appears
also in the honorary inscription for Memmius Regulus, erected on behalf of the
Achaean League (see [2]). Oliver dates the liberation, refered to in the text before
Caius, in the age of Tiberius, under whom Achaia became an imperial province; he
also points out that the Δωριείς of the inscription were merged later in the Locroi,
so that they are not named in IG VII 2711-2712, which are to be dated in A.D. 37.
A.J.S. Spawforth, ABSA 80, 253-4 (cf. SEG 35, 1985, 304) argues that Timocrates is
mentioned in the Regulus' inscription [2] together with his father and would have
been relatively young, not older that forty; in [1] he could be about fifty or sixty or
more, in other words, already with great experience and qualification (cf.... άπαντι
τώι προβεβιωμένω σεμνώς καί θαυμαστώς βίωι...); Β. Levy, "When did Nero
liberate Achaia and why", in: Achaia und Elis, 189-194 cites the inscription as
evidence for the serious administrative work done in Roman Achaia in A.D. 67, as
provincial political institutions were swept away and were replaced by local
administrative systems. The liberation took place in November A.D. 66 according
to Levy, who places Timocrates' term of office in A.D. 66/7.
The person was agonothetes before he obtained Roman citizenship, i.e. before A.D.
35-44 (cf. [8]), like his father (ARG 244 [2]), who was agonothetes of Apollonia,
Asclapeia and Caesareia.
s. T. Statilius Lamprias (II) (ARG 244), husband of Statilia Teimosthenis (ARG 242), f. T.
Statilius Lamprias III (ARG 245). For a stemma of the family see A.J.S. Spawforth, ABSA 80,
1985, 249, table 7, given also in Appendix, Stemma V, and Settipani, 496.
253. Τ(ΙΤΟΣ) ΣΤΑΤΙΔΙΟΣ ΛΑΜΠΡΙΟΥ (IV) ΥΙΟΣ ΤΙΜΟΚΡΑΤΗΣ (Π)
[1] IG IV 2 1, 678 [IG: primum saec. IIp. Chr.].
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