A01.031.0.pdf

ROMAN PELOPONNESE I
Memmius Regulus; see Groag, Reichsbeamten, 23-24; A. Stein, Die Legaten von
Moesien (Budapest 1940) 21, n. 4; Sarikakis, "Αρχοντες B', 48, n. 2; for further
bibliography see Rizakis, 7oc cit.
*197. SEX(TUS) (PRIFERNIUS)
f. T(itus) Prif[ernius Sex(ti) f(ilius) QJuir(ina) Paetus [Rosianus Gemi]nus Laecanfius Bassus (?)]
(ACH 198)
*198. T(ITUS) PRIF[ERNIUS SEX(TI) F(ILIUS) QJUIR(INA) PAETUS [ROSIANUS
GEMI]NUS LAECAN[IUS BASSUS (?)]
A.D. Rizakis, Epigraphica 51, 1989, 21-27 (AnnÉpigr 1989,206, no. 660); *Rizakis, Achaïe II,
no. 35 [A.D. 122/3 ].
Patrai; fragment of a limestone plaque bearing an honorary inscription for the person whose
cursus is partly preserved:
T(ito) Prif[ernio Sex(ti filio)] I [Q]uir(ina) Paeto [Rosiano] I [Gemi]no Laecan[io Basso(?)] I 4
[- ca. 4 -]Xvir(o) stlitib(us) i[ud(icandis) trib(uno) mil(itum)] I [leg(ionis) I Min]erviae
Germ(aniae) [inf(erioris) q(uaestori) urb(ano) I [candidato Cae]saris Nerv[ae Traiani —] I [—].
Xvir stlitib(us) iud(icandis), trib(unus) mil(itum) leg(ionis) I Minerviae Germ(aniae)
inf(erioris), q(uaestor) urb(anus), candidatus Caesaris Nervae Traiani
Remarks: The career of the discussed person is known by the correspondence of Pliny
(R.Syme, "Pliny's less successful friends", Historia 9, 1969, 362-379); cf. also
Thomasson, 193, no. 29; G. Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter den
Antoninen. Prosopographische Untersuchungen zur senatorischen Führungsschicht
(Bonn 1977) 44, 111,21, 208, 268 and 354 ff. For more about him and his offices
outside Achaia see Rizakis, Achaie II, no. 35, esp. p. 119 (with the recent bibliography).
In the inscription of Patrai he bears also the cognomen Laecanius, which
indicates his relationships with the family of Laecanii (see Rizakis, loc cit.).
199. (PUBLIUS AEMILIUS) PRIMIO
ILGR 70 (AnnÉpigr 1979, 174 no. 579); Rizakis, RPh 59, 1985, 92; *Rizakis, Achaie II, no.
Ill [2nd c. A.D.].
Patrai; a marble plaque of seven joining fragments bearing the funerary inscription of the
person's libertus:
P(ublius) Aemilius I Primionis l(ibertus) I Primigenius I vix(it) an(nos) XXXI I 5 Ephebio
frat(er).
Remarks: The patron is mentioned here with his cognomen alone (Solin and Salomies, 383);
this is not common and indicates that he must have been a well-known person. The
cognomen is sometimes used to distinguish a freedman from others, cf. Thylander,
92