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ROMAN PERSONAL NAMES IN ARGOLIS
Epidauros, sanctuary; a statue base erected for the person by the polis of Epidauros after a
decree of the boule:
Ούετούριον Πακκιανόν Ι τον συγκλητικόν Ι καί εύεργέτην ή πόλις ή τών Έπιδαυρίων.Ι
Ψ(ηφίσματι) Β(ουλής).
Remarks: While the person is attested in the Epidaurian text merely as συγκλητικόν we inform
more about his career from an honorary inscription from Ephesos (D. Knibbe, JÖAI
49, 1968-71, Beibl. 22-24, no. 4 with photo [AnnÉpigr 1972, 575]) erected for him
by his friend Flavius Damianus, a famous orator who flourished under M. Aurelius
(cf. PIR 2 F 253). The Ephesian text gives part of his cursus honorum: he was
quaestor of Macedonia (ταμίαν Μακεόονία[ς]), proconsul of Crete, Cyrenaica and
Libya ([άν]θύπατον Κρήτης Κυρήνης Λιβ[ϋ]ης), legatus Augusti pro praetore of
the dioecesis of Ephesos (πρεσβευτήν καί άντιστράτηγον διοικήσεως Έφεσιακής;
AnnÉpigr 1972, 575: "Paccianus est ensuite promu à la légation de la province
proconsulaire dAsie, où il administre la juridiction dans le diocèse d'Ephese, une des
trois circonscriptions de la province") and commander of the Legio of Moesia
Superior (ηγεμόνα λεγιώνος Μυσίας τής άνω), which is to be identified with VII.
Claudia at Viminacium.
Halfmann, Senatoren, 192, no. 118 suggests that Paccianus came from Corinth, since
his cognomen is attested in Corinth VIII. 1, 15 (A.D. 137); J.H. Oliver, EOS II, 595
and 601 suggests that Vett[—] in Corinth VIII. 3, 174 and 257 could be completed
as Vetturius. For Paccianus see also G. Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter
der Antoninen (Bonn 1977) 263, 285, 300.
Cf. also COR 448.
*265. (ΜΑΡΚΟΣ ΒΙΨΑΝΙΟΣ) ΑΓΡΙΠΠΑΣ
W. Vollgraff, Mnemosyne 41, 1919, 263-270, n. 28 (RA Série 5. 12, 1920, 375-376, no. 82); V.
Ehrenberg-A.H.M. Jones, Documents illustrating the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius 2 (Oxford
1955) 308; J.H. Oliver, "Gerusiae and Augustales", Historia 7, 1958, 474-6, 480-1; R.K. Sherk,
Roman documents from the Greek East (Baltimore, Maryland 1969) 323 f. no. 63; Oliver,
Greek constitutions, no. 3 (cf. REG 33, 1920, 414; AnnÉpigr 1920, 82; SEG 17, 1960, 145;
Mitsos, 19) [16-15 B.C.].
Argos, on the back of an opisthographic stele (on the same stone an honorary decree for
Alexander of Sicyon [published in Mnemosyne 1916, 64]); a letter of Agrippa to the Gerusia
of Argive elders:
Γερόντων Ι Αγρίππας Αργείων γέρουσι τοις από Ι Δαναοϋ καί Ύπερμήστρας χαίρειν. Ι
Έγώ τοϋ τε διαμειναι τό σύστημα Ι 5 ύμών καί φυλάξαι τό παλαιόν αξίωμα Ι τήν αίτίαν
έματώ σύνοιδα παρεσχηΐμένω καί πολλά τών καταλελυμένων Ι ύμειν άποδεδωκότι δικαίων
προς τε Ι τούπιόν προνοειν υμών [προθύμως] Ι 10
έχω καί τήν [ -] Ι νομιζ[—].
Remarks: The document is dated by Vollgraff, op. cit. in 23-12 B.C. According to Oliver,
Greek constitutions, no. 3 the inscription dates from the period of Agrippa's co-
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