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ROMAN PELOPONNESE I
Remarks: It is unknown whether the name of the person is the abbreviation of the gentilicium
Pomponius, here as a proper name, as IG IV suggests, or the name Πόμπων (which
is used as cognomen in the case of Pompilius Pompo [Dion. Hal. II. 58] and as a
single name in Plut., Num. 21). The latter reading is prefered by IG IV 2 1 and LGPN
III. A, 372, s.v. Πόμπων.
*213. ΑΥ(ΛΟΣ) ΠΟΜΠΩΝΙΟΣ Ε(ΑΪΟΥ) ΥΙΟΣ ΑΥΕΟΥΡΕΓΝΟΣ Τ(ΓΓΟΣ) ΠΡΙΦΕΡΝΙΟΣ ΠΑΙΤΟΣ
W. Vollgraff, BCH28, 1904, 425, no. 7 (AnnÉpigr 1905, 6; ILS 8863; Groag, Reichsbeamten,
143; E. Dabrowa, Legio X Fretensis. A prosopographical study of its officers (I-II I c. A.D.),
Historia, Einzelschriften 66 [Stuttgart 1993] 70-71, no. 8 [SEG 45, 1995, 259]) (Mitsos, 153)
[A.D. 104 or later].
Argos; a limestone stele found east of a "portique situé sur l'agora":
Α(ΰλον) Πομπώνιον Γ(αΐου) υίόν Ι Κυρίνα Αύγουρεινον Τ(ίτον) Πριφέρνιον Παιτον, χειλίαρχον
Ι λεγιώνος ι' Φρητενσίας, έπα[ρ]Ιχον σπείρης α' χειλιάνδρου, τιΙ 5 μηθέντα μετά τήν
κατά ΓεΙτών νείκην υπό αύτοκράτοΐρος Καίσαρος Νέρουα Τραϊανού Ι Σεβαστού
ΓερμανιΙκου κόσμω άριστείω, ούηξίλΙ 10 λω άργυρώ καί δόρατι καθαρώ Ι καί στεφάνω τειχήρι,
έπίτροίπον Σεβασ[τοϋ έ]παρχείας "ΑχαΙΐας, Μ. 'Αντώνιος 'Αχαϊκός έΐκ τών ίδίοον υπέρ
τήν πόλιν.
tribunus (militum) legionis Χ Fretensis, praefectus cohortis I milliariae, honoratus post
victoriam Geticam ab imp. Caes. Traiano Aug. Germ, donis militaribus vexillo argenteo hasta
pura corona murali, procurator Augusti provinciae Achaiae
Remarks: The date of the inscription is based on the titulature of Trajan (C.C. Petolescu,
Thraco-Dacica 16, 1995, 223-226 re-examines this inscription with more epigraphic
and numismatic evidence for the victory of Trajan in Moesia Inferior in A.D.
101/102). Rejecting the suggestion of J.H. Kent, Corinth VIII. 3, 63 that his father
was T. Prifernius Paetus Memmius Apollinaris and that he was adopted by
Pomponius Augurinus, Dabrowa, op. cit., 70 accepts that his name indicates that he
was adopted by a T. Prifernius Paetus, consul suffectus A.D. 96 (for other suggested
kinships see Dabrowa, op. cit., 70 n. 42). The suggestion of Dabrowa is not in
agreement with the norms of the Roman adoptive nomenclature as studied by O.
Salomies, Adoptive andpolyonymous nomenclature in the Roman empire (Helsinki
1992). In an oral communication O. Salomies thought that, if the person discussed
here was adopted, he was adopted by an A. Pomponius; another possibility could be
that his father was an A. Pomponius and his mother a Prifernia.
He was an equestrian promoted by Trajan to the rank of procurator after his service
in the army. He must have held his office as procurator Augusti in Achaia after the
Dacian war but before Trajan bore the title Dacicus, as Groag, op. cit., suggested.
Under Trajan, Paetus served in the army and acquired several military
decorations: vexillum argenteum, hasta pura, corona muralis. Groag dated the
inscription after A.D. 102; for the date mentioned above see PIR 2 935, p. 394. A
fragment of a Latin text found in Corinth (Corinth VIII. 3, 134; cf. COR 487) is
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