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ROMAN PELOPONNESE I
Remarks: The name Cafatius is attested in Etruria and Umbria and appears also in Dalmatia
62. ΓΑ[ΙΟΣ (?)]
(Alföldy, Dalmatia, 70).
I.A. Papapostolou, BCH 113, 1989, 393-401, fig. 36-37 (SEG 39, 1989, 409); *Rizakis, Achaïe
II, no. 173 [ca. A.D. 250-300].
Patrai; a mosaic representing gladiators in a house of the imperial era. The letters ΓΑ can be
read beside a human figure.
63. CANIA ARESQUS1A]
J. Martha, BCH 2, 1878, 10 no. 12 (St. N. Thomopoulos, Ιστορία της πόλεως Πατρών από
αρχαιοτάτων χρόνων μέχρι του 1821 [Patrai 1950 2 ] 237 no. 6); Th. Mommsen, EphEpigr4,
1879, no. 88; id., EphEpigr5, 1884, no. 189 (CIL III, 7259); cf. Ul. Kahrstedt, Historia 1, 1950,
551 (chronology) [beginnig of imperial era].
Kato Achaia (anc. Dyme); a fragment of a marble cippus bearing the epitaph of C. Canius
S[—] (text ACH 66) and Cania Aresqusa.
*64. ΠΟΠΑΙΟΣ ΚΑΝΕΙΝΙΟΣ ΑΓΡΙΠ[ΠΑΣ]
Α. Orlandos, PAAH 1931, 80, no. 4, fig. 9 (AnnÉpigr 1934, 163; SEG 11, 1950, 1269)
[beginning of imperial era].
Pellene; a marble plaque bearing an honorary inscription for the person, erected by the polis
and the resident Romans. He is honoured as an εκ προγόν[ων εύερ]γέτης:
Ή πόλις των ΠελληΙνέων και Τωμαιοι οι κ[α]Ιτοικοϋντες Πόπλιο[ν] Ι Κανείνιον
Αγρίπ[παν] Ι τον εκ προγόν[ων εύερ]1γέτην.
Remarks: This person is to be identified with P. Caninius Agrippa, son of Alexiades,
procurator Caesa. Aug. provine. Achaiae, some time before A.D. 15 (Corinth
VIII. 2, 65-66, cf. COR 135); his father's name "betrays a provincial Greek origin,
probably from the region of old Achaea" (A. Spawforth, "Roman Corinth: the
formation of a colonial elite", in: Roman onomastics, 173 and 176-77). For his
career see Groag, Reichsbeamten, 139-140; E. Meyer, RE XIX (1937) 364, s.v.
Pellene; U. Kahrstedt, Das wirtschaftliche Gesicht Griechenlands in der
Kaiserzeit (Bern 1954) 256-257; PIR 2 , C 387; Spawforth op. cit., 173 and 176-77.
P. Caninius Agrippa, served as Ilvir in the colony of Corinth in the years A.D.
16/17 or 22/21; see COR 135.
65. Π(ΟΠΑΙΟΣ) ΚΑΝΕΙΝΙΟΣ ΖΗΝΩΝ
J.G. Frazer, Pausanias's description of Greece, IV (New York 1965) 176-177 (2); cf. Ο. Walter,
JÖAI19-20, 1919, Beiblatt, 40 [beginning of imperial era].
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