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ROMAN PELOPONNESE I
Olympia; list of cult personnel.
theocolos
175. Μ(ΑΡΚΟΣ) ΚΟΥΡΙΟ[Σ- - -]
ΙνΟ 118,1. 4 facsimile [A.D. 241].
Olympia; list of cult personnel.
theocolos
Remarks: For the name see Solin and Salomies, 65 and for its diffusion in the West Mócsy,
Nomenclator, 95. In the Greek mainland it is very rare. In Polyb. II. 19, 8 there is
the variation Κόριος. Cf. also Zoumbaki, Elis und Olympia, Κ 92.
*176. A(ULUS) DIDI[U]S [GALLUS]
Α. von Domaszewski, "Praefectus equitatus", MDAI [R] 6, 1891, 163- 167; 7v0 914 facsimile
=CIL ULI. Suppl. 7247=12278 (J.H. Oliver, AJPh 1948, 219-222 [RA série 6. 34, 1949 II, 174-
175, no. 11]; ILGR 42) [1st c. A.D.].
Olympia; four fragments of a plaque of Pentelic marble from a pedestal for several statues. The
preserved part of the Latin inscription includes a cursus honorum of the person completed in
various ways by scholars:
A(ulus) Didi[u]s [Gallus, orn]atus [dono Ti(beri)] I Claudi Caes[aris] Aug(usti) Ger[mani]lci
tr[i]umphal[ibus o]rname[ntis, co(n)s(ul)], I [XVvir s(acris) f(aciundis), proco(n)[s(ul)...a]e et
Sicilia[e], I 5 [leg(atus) Aug(usti) pr(o) pr(aetore) Moe]siae, pr[aefectus] equitat(us) I [bello
Britannico, praetor, quaestor impe]ratoris,... (restoration by Domaszewski accepted by
Dittenberger and Purgold).
Oliver restores the text: A. Didius G[allus leg]atus [Ti.] I Claudi Caes[aris] Aug. Ger[mani]lci
tr[i]umphal[ibus o]rname[ntis] I [XVuir] s. f. proco[s. Asia]e et Sicilia[e] I 5 [dux Moe]siae
pr[aefectu]s equitat. [comes et legatus Impe]ratoris i[n] I [Britannia ].
(for his offices see below in remarks)
Remarks: For the person see E. Groag, RE V 1 (1903) 410, s.v. Didius [6]; PIR 2 D 70; J.H.
Oliver, AJPh 1948, 219-222; id, "Epigramma Magni Momenti IG IX ii 1135",
GRBS 8. 3, 1967, 237-239 (cf. Δείδιος of the epigramm); W. Eck, RE Suppl. XIV
(1974) 111, s.v. Didius [6]; L. Petersen - L. Vidman, "Zur Laufbahn des Α. Didius
Gallus", in: Actes de la XII e conférence intern, d'études class. "Eirene". Cluj-
Napoca, 2-7 Octobre 1972 (1975) 653 ff.; A. Aichinger, "Die Reichsbeamten der
römischen Macedonia der Prinzipatsepoche", AVes 30, 1979, 657-658; U. Vogel-
Weidermann, Die Statthalter von Afrika und Asia in den Jahren 14-68 η. Chr. (Bonn
1982) 348 ff., no. 48 (with an extensive bibliography); L. Sensi, "Praescriptio del S.C.
Larinate", in: EOS I, 519-520 for A. Didius [- - -]; Thomasson, 375, no. 34; cf. FOS
136 (comments on no. 127: Attica); W. Eck, Der neue Paulyl, 541-542 [II 2].
The person is perhaps to be identified with the legatus pro praetore, who defeated
476