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ROMAN PERSONAL NAMES IN ELEIA
King Mithrithates VIII of the Kingdom of Bosporus and put Cotys in his place in
A.D. 46 (Tacitus, Ann. XII, 15). He held the offices of quaestor (A.D. 19), proconsul
Siciliae, consul suffectus (A.D. 39), curator aquarum (till A.D. 49), legatus and comes
of Claudius in Britannia (A.D. 43), legatus pro praetore Moesiae (A.D. 46),
proconsul Asiae (between A.D. 49 and 52) and governor of Britannia (A.D. 52-57).
According to Dittenberger-Purgold (7vO 914, St. 777-778) and most scholars, all this
evidence is to be connected with one person, while, according to A. von
Domaszewski, op. cit., the governor of Britannia in the period A.D. 52-57 was the
father of the legatus pro praetore Moesiae of the year A.D. 46.
The exact date of the inscription from Olympia as well as his connection with the
province of Achaia are not clear. The phrase [leg]atus [Ti.] Claudi Caes[aris] Aug.
Ger[mani]ci (see Oliver's restoration above), without naming the province, can be
connected with Achaia. Oliver argued for the possibility that Gallus was the
governor of the three provinces Achaia-Macedonia-Moesia between Poppaeus
Sabinus and Memmius Regulus in A.D. 36, which cannot be accepted since it is now
certain that he held the consulate in A.D. 39. Petersen - Vidman, op. cit., date the
activity of Gallus in Achaia to the period when the government of the three
provinces together was already abolished, but special governors for each one had not
been established. Aichinger, loc. cit., prefers to leave the question open and
underlines that Gallus appears in the inscription from Olympia already as procofs.
Asia (?)]e, which indicates that Achaia was no longer connected with Moesia and
Macedonia.
*177. ΓΝΑΙΟΣ ΛΟΜΕΤΙΟΣ
E. Kunze, 01B5, 1956, 160-164, pi. 81 (SEG 15, 1958, 254; AnnÉpigr 1960, 76; Moretti, ISE
153-4, no. 60; T. Schwertfeger, Der achäische Bund von 146 bis 27 ν. Chr. [München 1974] 28-
40, text on p. 28; cf. BullEpigr 1959, 170); L. Semmlinger, Weih-, Sieger- und Ehreninschriften
aus Olympia und seiner Umgebung (Diss. Erlangen-Nürnberg 1974) 398-405 [2nd c. B.C.].
Olympia; a block of a base for an equestrian statue bearing an honorary inscription erected by
the soldiers of 19 poleis of Achaia and Arcadia for Damo, son of Alcisthenes, from Patrai, who
fought as the leader of the Achaeans (Αχαιών) with the consul Cn. Domitius against the Gauls:
...οι στρατευσάμενοι Ι μετά Γναίου Δομετίου στραταγού υπάτου Ι 'Ρωμαίων επί Γαλατάς
Δάμωνα 'Αλκισθένεος Ι Πατρή τον αυτών άγεμόνα άρετάς ένεκεν Ι Διί Όλυμπίω.
Consul
Remarks: The date of the inscription is problematic, since there are homonyms who held the
office of consul at different times, four of whom are candidates for identification with
the consul who appears in the inscription from Olympia: Cn. Domitius L. f. L. n.
Ahenobarbus (18), consul in 192 B.C. (Broughton, Magistrates I, 350; Ill, 81), Cn.
Domitius Cn. f. L. n. Ahenobarbus (19), consul suffectus in 162 B.C. (Broughton,
Magistrates I, 442; Ill, 81), Cn. Domitius Cn. f. Cn. n. Ahenobarbus (20), consul in
477