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ROMAN PERSONAL NAMES IN ARGOLIS
attested in the Greek inscriptions must have acquired Roman citizenship thanks to the
mediation of Regulus. He encouraged the reorganisation of the provincial Koina (cf.
the honorary inscription [2]), and perhaps the self-government of the Greek civitates
stipendiariae (cf. Groag, Reichsbeamten, 28-29). The next office of his career was the
proconsulate of Asia, which he held in A.D. 48-49.
For honorary inscriptions for Regulus from Athens, Megara, Thespiai, Dion, Delphi
and places beyond Greece see Groag, op. cit., 25-27. In the Peloponnesian cities
there are several inscriptions in his honour. He is honoured as benefactor by the
Eleian Polycleitus, son of Proxenides (IvO 337 from Olympia, see EL 277). Caligula
ordered Regulus to bring the famous statue of Zeus from Olympia to Rome. The
intervening death of the emperor relieved Regulus of this order (Joseph, AJ 19, 8;
Cass. Dio 59. 28, 3).
In a Corinthian honorary inscription, which is to be dated after A.D. 38 (Corinth
VIII. 2, 53, with a discussion on the person), he seems to bear also some religious
offices [vii vir] epul(onum), sodalis [augjustalis, frater Arvalis, apart from his
political post as [leg(atus) Caesaris Augusftji G[er(manici) pr(o) praet(ore)]
pro[v(inciae) Achaiae - - -] (see COR 423). In the damaged beginning of a letter from
the proconsul of Achaia to Corinth refering to the benefaction of a Priscus
(identified with P. Licinius Priscus Iuventianus, see COR 378 [4]) to the city and the
Isthmian sanctuary, L. Robert, Hellenica I (1940), 43-53, esp. 52-53 restored, ...ερεί­
πια στοάς Ι [τή]ς [Τ]ηγλ[ιανής] (based also on IG IV 203,1. 29, which he restores
as εάν μοι πωλήσητε τής λεγ[ομ]ένης ρηγλια[νής στοάς τα ερείπια]) and recognised
in this the name of P. Memmius Regulus. After examination of the stone of the first
inscription, J.H. Kent restored the text as ...[τή]ς [Τ]ήγλ[ο]υ [μαρ]μάρας... (Corinth
Vili. 3, 306, pi. 26; see also the re-edition of the texts by D. J Geagan, Hesperia 58,
1989, 349-360 [SEG 39, 1989, 340; BullÉpigr 1990, 103]).
Regulus is maybe also attested in Messenia as proconsul in a honorary decree of
Messene (see also MES s.v. Μέμμιος).
For the person see E. Groag, RE XV 1 (1931) 626-636, s.v. Memmius (Regulus)
[29]; Groag, Reichsbeamten, 25-30; A. Stein, Die Legaten von Moesien,
Dissertationes pannonicae 1.11 (Budapest 1940) 21 ff; Degrassi, Fasti consolari, 10.
no. 784; D. Kanatsoulis, Μακεδόνικη προσωπογραφία από του 148 π.Χ. μέχρι των
χρόνων τον Μ. Κωνσταντίνου (Thessaloniki 1955) no. 909; J. Scheid, Les frères
arvales. Recrutement et origine sociale sous les empereurs julio-claudiens (Paris
1975) 213-218, no. 34; B. Levick, Tiberius. The politician (London 1976) 177 ff. and
203; Sarikakis, Αρχοντες Β', 51-54; A. Aichinger, "Die Reichsbeamten der
römischen Macedonia der Prinzipatsepoche", AVes 30, 1979, 615-6; Thomasson,
191, no. 11 PIR 2 M 468.
f. C. Memmius Regulus (ARG 191)
193. [- ca. 4 -]ΙΟΣ ΜΟΜΜΙΟΣ ΓΑΪΟΥ ΡΩΜ[Α]ΙΟΣ
P. Charneux, BCH 11, 1953, 402-3, no. VI, fig. 6 (SEG 13, 1956, 248) [1st c. B.C.].
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