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ROMAN PERSONAL NAMES IN CORINTHIA
(COR 45) and Antonia (COR 33), d. of L. Antonius Damonicus (COR 61):
Cn. Egnatio C. f. I L. Antonius et Antonia I L. Antoni Damonici f. auxili erg(o).
252. Π(ΟΠΛΙΟΣ) ΕΓΓΝΑΠΟΣ] ΑΠΟΛΛ[- - -]
Corinth Vili. 3, 303, pi. 25 [early empire].
Corinth, forum; fragment of a slab of white marble; funerary dedication erected by the person
for himself, her wife Μοσχ[ίνη] and their descendants:
Ζών Π. Έγ[νάτιος] Ι Άπολλ[ώνιος] Ι Έφέσιος [έαυτώ κ]1αί Μοσχ[ίνη (?) γυναι]κί Ι καί το[ις
έκγόνοις].
Έφέσιος
Remarks: J. Η. Kent, Corinth , loc. cit., notes that the spacing favours a restoration of a
253. [- - -]S EUPHAMIL - -]
cognomen such as Άπολλ[ώνιος] rather than Άπολλό[δωρος].
Corinth VIII. 3, 366, pi. 32 [imperial period].
Corinth, theatre; fragment of white marble; mutilated inscription preserving part of his name
which, according to the editor, was probably Euphami[das].
254. [- - -] ERASTUS
T. L. Shear, AIA 33, 1929,525-526, fig. 9 (AnnÉpigr 1930, 118; F. J. de Waele, Gnomon 6,
1930, 54; id., Gnomon 10, 1934, 226; A. G. Roos, Mnemosyne 58, 1930, 160-165; H. J.
Cadbury, "Erastus of Corinth", lourn. of Bibl. Liter. 50, 1931, 42-58, with the previous
bibliography; H. van de Weerd, "Een nieuw opschrift van Korinthe", Rev.Belg. 10, 1931,
87-95, ph. on the opposite of page 88; Corinth VIII. 3, 232, pi. 232 [middle of the 1st c.
A.D.].
Corinth, theatre; portions of two inscribed paving slabs of gray Acrocorinthian limestone;
the letters were of metal and were fastened into cuttings in the pavement blocks; he laid the
pavement for his aedilship at his own expense: [ jErastus pro aedilit[at]e I s. p. stravit.
Remarks: He was probably of freedman origin; it has been suggested that he should be
identified with the Corinthian Erastus of the New Testament (Acta apostolorum
19, 22) mentioned twice by St. Paul in the Epistula Pauli ad Timotheum II. 4, 20
and in the Epistula Pauli ad Romanos 16,23: ασπάζεται υμάς "Εραστος ο οικονό­
μος της πόλεως, on the grounds that this last Greek title could describe the
function of a Corinthian aedilis (J. H. Kent, Corinth, loc. cit.; Stansbury,
Corinthian honor, 320-327). Both Cadbury, loc. cit. and van de Weerd, loc. cit.,
who also proposes for the person the cognomen Eperastus, reject this
identification as improbable, if not impossible.
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