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216-219 ROMAN PELOPONNESE I
probable than the restoration of the ethnic Άσαΐος. According to Peek's restoration
the inscription is to be dated in A.D. 135 (on the 11th year from the presence of
Hadrian in Greece).
*216. ΜΑΡΚΟΣ ΠΟΝΤΙΟΣ ΛΑΙ[ΛΙΑΝΟΣ]
IG IV 1534; IG IV 2 1, 88; Peek, 1969, 31-32, no. 37,1. 20-21 [A.D. 164].
Epidauros, sanctuary; a fragment of a letter of a noble Roman to the polis Epidauros; the
document is dated by Laelianus, who was one of the consuls.
Remarks: For the precise date both of the Hadrianic era and the consuls, cf. A. J. Cossage,
"The Date of IG V (2) 516 (S/G 3 800)", ABSA 49, 1954,53, η. 18 (BullÉpigr 1956, 114).
For the person see Degrassi, Fasti consolari, 46, no. 916 (consul of the year A.D.
163); G. Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter den Antoninen (Bonn 1977)
177, 233, 279 f., 316, 325; PIR 2 Ρ 805.
217. Μ(ΑΡΚΟΣ) ΠΟΝΤΙΟΣ ΜΑΪΩΡ
P. Charneux, BCH 80, 1956, 604-610, no. 6,1. 19, fig. 3 (BullÉpigr 1958, 228; SEG 16, 1959,
253) [2nd/3rdc. A.D.].
Argos, theatre; a list of magistrates ludis praesidentium, where the person is attested as γρο-
φέως άμφοτέρ[ων] τών αγώνων.
Remarks: For the identity of those games see Charneux, op. cit., 608 ff. (BullÉpigr 1958, 228).
*218. ΓΑ[Ι]ΟΣ (C. POPILLIUS LAENAS)
P. Charneux, BCH81, 1957, 181-202,1. 5-6 (SEG 16, 1959, 255) [170/169 B.C.].
Argos; an honorary decree for Cn. Octavius who was a member of an embassy to the Achaean
League; Aulus (Hostilius Mancinus) was the consul: ...αποσταλείς δέ καί πρεσβευτάς [μετά]
Γα[Ϊ]ου υπό Αΰλου....
Remarks: For the date at the end of the decree see remarks on ARG 25.
He is to be identified with C. Popilius (Polyb. XXVIII. 3-5). About his offices see
H. Volkmann, RE XXII 1 (1953) 57-58, s.v. C Popillius Laenas [18]; P. Charneux,
BCHSÌ, 1957, 186; Broughton, Magistrates I, 402; 410; 426; 430; 446, II. 605.
ΠΡΑΤΟΛΑΟΣ: see (Π. Μέμμιος) Πρατόλαος (ARG 190).
219. ΠΡΕΙΜΑ
W. Vollgraff, BCH 33, 1909, 458-460, no. 24, photo on p. 459 [imperial].
Argos, found in a private garden; a grave stele decorated with a relief and bearing the funerary
inscription Πρεΐμα χέρε (sic); it is the same stone as that with the funerary inscription of Aulus
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