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such expensive offices were becoming increasingly thin on the ground (Rizakis,
Achaïe II, 122 η. 7).
As for chronology, J. Bingen (BCH 78, 1954, 79), dated the epigram between A.D.
360 and 425 based on the archaizing Homeric language, the meter and the style more
generally, and in particular on the interpretation of άρχος πενταέτηρος as defensor
civitatis. However, the survival og the office of duumvir quinquennalis— for which
there are examples of even later survivals in Africa— makes possible an earlier date
in the first half of the fourth century (cf. Rizakis, op. cit.).
53. BETUTIA T(ITI) L(IBERTA) PHILETE
Rizakis, Achaïe II, no. 88 [2nd/3rd c. A.D.].
Patrai; a marble grave stele bearing just the name of the deceased in the nominative.
liberta
Remarks: The nomen Betutius/a is known in Italy (Schulze, 110,403), in Spain (G. Alföldy, Die
54. T(ITUS) (BETUTIUS)
römischen Inschriften von Tarraco [Berlin 1975] 216 [Tarragone]), Baetica (CIL II,
539), Gallia Narbonensis (Mócsy, Nomenclator, s.v.) and the province of Asia (e.g.
IG XII 1, 645; IGRR IV, passim).
Patron of Betutia Philete (ACH 53)
55. BILLIEN[- - -]
Rizakis, Achaïe II, no. 100 [2nd/3rd c. A.D.].
Patrai; a limestone plaque with the funerary inscriptions of two persons bearing the same
gentilicium, Billien[ ] (ACH 56), which is to be completed either as Billien[us] or as
Billien[ius] (cf. Solin and Salomies, 34).
Remarks: The person does not bear any praenomen. This is the only attestation of this gentile
name in Greece. In Italy we find Billienus, Billienius and Billianius (Mócsy,
Nomenclator, s.v.; Solin and Salomies, 34).
56. L(UCIUS) BILLIEN[- - -]
Rizakis, Achaïe II, no. 100 [2nd/3rd c. A.D.].
Patrai; a limestone plaque with the funerary inscriptions of two persons bearing the same
gentilicium, Billien[—]:
L. Billien[- - -] I vi(xit) ann(os) [- - -] I Billien[- - -vi(xit)] I ann(os) [- - -].
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