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ROMAN PERSONAL NAMES IN ARGOLIS
*92. ΓΝ(ΑΙΟΣ) ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΣ ΛΕΟΝΤΙΚΟΣ
IG IV 1417; Syll. 3 877 E; IG IV 2 1, 694; Peek 1969, 131, no. 303, facsimile [Severan].
Epidauros, sanctuary; an honorary inscription on an exedra erected for Gn. Claudius Leonticus
by Manius Gellius Bassus. The text is engraved on an older one:
Τον λαμπρότατον ύπατικόν καί έπανορθωτήν της Αχαΐας Γν(αίον) Κλαύδιον Λεοντικόν,
Μάγιος Γέλλιος Βάσσος τον εύεργέτην.
consulans, legatus ad corrigendum statum civitatium liberarum Achaiae
Remarks: For the person see E. Groag, RE III 2 (1899) 2728-2729, s.v. Claudius [203]; PIR 2 C
909; Barbieri, no. 159; Thomasson, 197-198, no. 64; J.H. Oliver, GRBS 14 (1973)
404sq.; id., EOS II, 587-588. Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare, 190, 295, 356, 374.
The person as well as his son Claudius Teres and grandson Claudius Illyrius are
connected with Athens and Megara, but Oliver, EOS II, loc. cit., underlines the
unexpected names Illyrius and Teres, which is Thracian.
93. ΤΙΒ(ΕΡΙΟΣ) ΚΛΑΥΔΙ[ΟΣ] ΜΕϊνΓΕΚΛΗΣ
M. Pierart-J.P. Thalmann, BCH 102, 1978, 782-4 fig. 19 (SEG 28, 1978, 396); Α. Pariente, M.
Piérart, J.-P. Thalmann, "Les recherches sur l'agora d'Argos: résultats et perspectives", in: A.
Pariente et G. Touchais (eds.), Argos et FArgolide. Topographie et urbanisme, Actes de la
Table Ronde internationale, Athènes-Argos 28/4-1/5/1990 (Nauplion-Athènes 1998) 219
[lst/2ndc. A.D.].
Argos; the dedication is carved on a block of limestone reused and built into the western
stylobate of the late palaistra in the agora. The persons mentioned in the inscription have
offered several donations to the polis, among them statues of Sebastoi and heroes and three
baths, where they "brought the waters down from above" (translation by A.J.S. Spawforth-S.
Walker, "The world of the Panhellenion II. Three Dorian cities", JRS 76, 1986, 102):
[άγ]οράν καί τους εν αύτ[η] Ι [σε]βαστούς καί ήρωας Ι [καί (?)] βαλανεια τρία μετά Ι [τών
τ]έκνων Τιβ. ΚλαυδίΙ[ου] Μενεκλέους καί Τι[β.] Ι [Κλ]αυδίου Αντιγόνου, τό Ι[άνωθ]ε ύδωρ
καταγαγόντα. The block also bears a dedication of the 3rd c. A.D.
Remarks: The person is a brother of Tib. Claudius Antigonus (ARG 84) of the same inscription.
Another possibility of completing his cognomen could be Xenocles.
94. [ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟ]Σ ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΣ EYNOMOY ΥΙΟΣ ΝΙΚΟΤΕΛΗΣ
[1] IG IV 1403; IG IV 2 1, 602; (cf. BullÉpigr 1976, 259) [A.D. 49-54].
Epidauros, sanctuary; a base bearing an honorary inscription erected by the named person for
the Emperors Claudius and Agrippina:
Τι(βέριον) Κλαύδιον Καίσαρα Σεβαστό[ν] Ι Γερμανικόν αυτοκράτορα καί Ι Άγριππίναν
Καίσαρος Ι Τι(βέριος) Κλαύδιος Εύνόμου υιός Νικοτέ[λης].
[2] Peek, 1972, 42, no. 76, facsimile, pi. XVIII, fig. 44 (cf. BullÉpigr 1973, 191; AnnÉpigr
179