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ROMAN PELOPONNESE I
see S. Dow, "Corinthiaca", HSCPh 60, 1951, 81-100, with the previous publications and
bibliography [ca. 100 B.C. or 4th decade B.C., before 31 B.C.].
Corinth, forum; limestone block preserving a Latin epigram in honour of Hirrus (*COR 318);
he is attested as [[Antoni Marci]].
(praetor) pro consule
Remarks: He is to be identified with the homonymous grandfather of M. Antony; the inversion
of praenomen and gentilicium was frequent during the Republic. The epigram, in
elegiac metre, refers to his campaign against the pirats in Cilicia (102-101 B.C.) and
commemorates the transferring of his fleet across the Isthmus under the leadership of
the legatus pro praetore C. Lucilius Hirrus (*COR 318). Marcus Antonius continued
to hold this command until 100 B.C., when he celebrated, probably between
December 10th and 29th, a triumph for his successes (Broughton, Magistrates I, 568,
with bibliography, 572, 576; id., Magistrates II, 1). The date of the inscription is
discussed extensively by Taylor and West, loc. cit. and Dow, loc. cit., who concluded
on the basis of the lettering and language that it belongs to ca. 100 B.C. Since during
this period Corinth had no inhabitants, this early date could be accepted on the
grounds that the inscription had been erected initially at the Isthmus and transfered
under Antony's rule to the forum. Another possibility is a postponed dedication after
the colony's foundation by Caesar in 44 B.C., during Antony's years. The rasura of
the name of Marcus Antonius is completely understandable in the political
circumstances after the defeat of his grand-son Marc Antony in Actium in 31 B.C. B.
Millis (by correspondence) notes, in favor of this later date that the inscription is cut
on part of an earlier grave monument and it seems fairly common that these
monuments in the early years of the colony were re-used for building material.
47. [M(ARCUS)] AN[T]ONIUS
f. of [M(arcus)] An[t]onius [M. f. - - -] Nigrinus (COR 66)
48. M(ARCUS) (ANTONIUS)
f. of M(arcus) Antonius M. f. [A]em(ilia) [A]çhaicus (COR 53)
49. Μ(ΑΡΚΟΣ) ΑΝ[ΤΩΝΙΟΣ]
Corinth Vili. 1, 101 [under Marc Antony].
Corinth; block of marble; probably a pedestal of a statue erected in his honour by a friend of him
whose name is missing: [—] ιε [—] [—] Μ. Αν[τώνιο] I [—] προ [—] I [— τ]ογ φ[ίλον].
50. Μ(ΑΡΚΟΣ) ΑΝ[ΤΩΝΙΟΣ - - -]
Ο. Broneer, Hesperia 28, 1959, 324, no. 4C, pi. 65b (SEG 18, 1962, 139) [2nd c. A.D.].
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