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ROMAN PELOPONNESE I
4. AEMILIA EROTIS
Ταβεννήτης (e.g. ILGR, 66 no. 154); some Aelii are attested at Ravenna, but not
with the praenomen Quintus (CIL IX. 1, 141 sqq.). The reasons for his stay at Patrai
are unknown, see comment Rizakis, op. cit.
CIL III, 516; *Rizakis, Achaïe II, no. 109 [lst/2nd c. A.D.].
Patrai; a stone, now lost, bearing the funerary inscription of P. Aemilius Urbanus erected by
his mother, Aemilia Erotis, and his sister:
P(ublius) Aemilius Urbanus, I annor(um) XXXV. I Mater et soror I fecerunt Aemilia I 5 Erotis
et I Aemilia Secunda.
Remarks: The common name Erotis is often used as cognomen in imperial times among slaves
and freedmen, cf. Solin, Namenbuch, 335-337.
m. of P. Aemilius Urbanus (ACH 11) and Aemilia Secunda (ACH 5)
5. AEMILIA SECUNDA
CIL III, 516; *Rizakis, Achaïe II, no. 109 [lst/2nd c. A.D.].
Patrai; a stone, now lost, bearing the funerary inscription of P. Aemilius Urbanus erected by
his mother Aemilia Erotis and his sister, Aemilia Secunda (text ACH 4).
Remarks: It is noteworthy that she and her brother both have their mother's gentilicium, which
points to their birth as illegitimate children of parents living in contubemium, cf.
Thylander, Épigraphie latine, 89-90, 94; Β. Rawson, CFA 61, 1966, 74-78.
d. of and Aemilia Erotis (ACH 4), sister of P. Aemilius Urbanus (ACH 11)
6. L(UCIUS) (AEMILIUS)
f. of L(ucius) Aemilius L(ucii) f(ilius) Quir(ina) (ACH 7) and of P(ublius) Aemilius L(ucii) f.
Quir(ina) (ACH 8)
7. L(UCIUS) AEMILIUS L(UCII) F(ILIUS) QUI(RINA)
Ph. Petsas, AAA 4, 1971, fase. 1, 112-115, pi. 1 (R. Frei-Stolba, Talanta 10-11, 1978/79, 45 no.
2; ILGR 45) *Rizakis, Achaïe II, no. 156 [end 1st c. B.C.].
Patrai; a slightly convex marble plaque of eight fragments bearing the epitaph of the person
and his brother, who were both centuriones of the 10th legio equestris:
L(ucio) Aemilio L(ucii) f(ilio) Qui(rina) I cent(urioni) [l]eg(ionis) X Eq(uestris) Ilvir(o), I
P(ublio) Aem[ilio L(ucii) f(ilio) Qui(rina)] I cent(urioni) l[eg(ionis) eiusdem? —] I 5 [—].
cent(urio) [l]eg(ionis) X Eq(uestris), H(vir)
Remarks: The person with his brother were among the first colonists at Patrai and were
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