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ROMAN PERSONAL NAMES IN ARGOLIS
and grammateus of the Achaean Koinon, highpriest of the emperor, procurator
Remarks: Peek, op. cit., identifies the person of [2] with that of [1] and Xenocles with Tib.
Claudius Xenocles, pyrphoros in A.D. 225 (ARG 107); the latter cannot be regarded
as certain, since there is a long gap in time.
Γν. Κορνήλιος Ποΰλχερ νεώτ(ερος) Έπιδαύριος ο καί Άργεΐος, attested in a list
of victors in Caesareia Isthmia games (Corinth VIII. 1,15; cf. COR 229), is identified
by Meriti with the son of Πούλχρος of [1]. Therefore he could be either identified
with the person discussed here or with his father.
The person discussed here was an eques romanus who reached high offices of the
Roman empire. He served as tribunus militum legionis IV Scythicae, which is to be
found in Syria under Hadrian, see E. Ritterling, RE XII (1925) 1364, s.v. legio. The
person is attested in many Corinthian inscriptions dated from Trajan to Hadrian and
including more offices; cf. COR 228. He is attested in Corinthian inscriptions as
procurator of Epirus and iuridicus of Egypt and Alexandria (Ηπείρου επίτροπος,
Αιγύπτου καί Αλεξανδρείας δικαιοδότης). He held also several provincial offices
in Achaia. He was helladarch of the Achaian Koinon and high priest of Greece, priest
of Hadrian Panhellenius and Panhellenic archon. Further he was appointed to
municipal offices in Corinth and was agonothetes of Isthmia and games in honour of
the Emperor Trajan in Corinth as well in Asclepeia and Sebasteia, probably in
Epidauros.
B. Puech, "Grand-prêtres et helladarques d'Achaie", REA 85, 1983, 17-21
reexamines his career, contests the date of [1] advocated by G.W. Bowersock,
"Some persons in Plutarch's moralia", CQ 15, 1965,267-70 (before 114), and argues
that it could be later.
He is also attested in Athens (AD 25, 1970, 54-55, fig. 246). On the base of IG IV
1600 {Corinth VOI. 1, 80; Oliver, Marcus Aurelius, 118, no. 35) Follet, Athènes, 126,
n. 3 completes the Athenian fragmentary inscription as [τον ιερέα 'Αδριανού Πανελ­
ληνίου Ι καί άρχοντα τώ]ν Πανε[λλήνων Ι Γναίον Κορνήλ]ιον Πούλχ[ρον ].
Pulcher is identified as the first archon of the Panhellenes. The epigramm [2] is also
connected by Follet, Athènes, 126, n. 4 with the office of Pulcher as archon of the
Panhellenes, with whom she identifies the "Ελληνες of the inscription.
Further, he is to be identified with the person to whom the work of Plut., Mor. 86 Β
ff. (Πώς αν τις υπ' έχθρων ώφελοΐτο), addressed is (cf. Bowersock, op. cit.), as well
as with the procurator of Epirus attested in Epictetus, III. 4, 1.
For him see also PIR 2 C 1424; H.G. Pflaum, Les procurateurs équestres sous le
Haut-Empire Romain (Paris 1950) 178; id., Carrières, 81; Devijver, C 245, p. 301;
W. Eck, DerneuePauly3, 196 [II 43] s.v. Cornelius.
For a stemma of the family see Appendix, Stemma IV.
118. ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΣ (ΚΟΡΝΗΛΙΟΣ ΠΟΥΛΧΡΟΣ)
IG IV 795 (SEG 35, 1985, 313) [ca. A.D. 114].
Troizen, earlier in the place of the "mensa sacra" of the church of Hagia Sotira; a marble base
L89
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