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A Patron of Myra in Ephesus
This analysis of the relations between the proconsul and the princeps is a contribution to the wider study of the role of the principal senators in the entourage of the Caesars and in the government of the Roman Empire. Through describing how the administrative structures and the political personnel functioned, this book seeks to shed new light on the institutions and practices that the imperial power invented in order to choose, collaborate with and communicate with the ten governors of the public provinces. This will be shown through the treatment of three major themes : the designation of the proconsul (normally resulting from drawing lots) and the methods through which the imperial power intervened in this traditional process to name or prorogate his prefered candidates ; the comparative study of the powers of the princeps and the proconsul ; the means of long-distance communications established between the centre of the Empire and the peripheries which were under the authority of the proconsuls.
In the course of the late Alan Hall's survey of Oinoanda, a Graeco-Roman city of northern Lycia, between 1974 and 1983, further survey work at the site led by Stephen Mitchell in 1994 and excavations in 1997 led by the Director of Fethiye Museum, Ibrahim Malkoç, and Martin Ferguson Smith, many architectural, historical and epigraphical questions have been answered or at least clarified. Other questions, however, await further fieldwork, to be carried out by others, at what is a very beautiful and forested, but rubble-strewn, waterless, and relatively inaccessible, site. In the meantime, progress can be made with the unpublished records and notes of previous campaigns. This article presents five inscribed statue bases, or their remnants, in context from the upper agora of Oinoanda.
12 Syme, Problems (note 11) 191-194 = Roman Papers IV 348-351; Vogcl-Weidemann, Statthalter (note 11) 266-274; Thomasson, LlIterculi (note 10) 210, no
- Laterculi Thomasson
Thomasson, Laterculi (note 10) 210, no. 29.
12 Syme, Problems (note 11) 191-194 = Roman Papers IV 348-351; Vogcl-Weidemann, Statthalter (note 11) 266-274; Thomasson, LlIterculi (note 10) 210, no. 33.
14 Tae.@BULLET ann o IV 56. 3.
15 CIL VIII 14"86::; 10568; ILS 9375; Vogel-Weidemann, SIal/halter (nole 11) 105.
Lepidi el Gaell/lici coni:/I'Qlio; Suel., Ca!. 24; Dio LlX 22
- Suet
Suet.. l!lud. 9: Lepidi el Gaell/lici coni:/I'Qlio; Suel., Ca!. 24; Dio LlX 22.6-7;
Statthalter (note 11) 97-109. 274-280. 17 Symc, Problems (note 11) 194 = Roman Papers IV 351; Vogel-Weidemann, Statthalter (note 11) 268. 18 Vcll. II 114-115; Dia LVI 12, 2; Tac., anno I 13,2. On his carceJ
16 Symc. Problems (nole 11) 194 = Roman Papers IV 351; Vogel-Weidcmann, Statthalter (note
11) 97-109. 274-280.
17 Symc, Problems (note 11) 194 = Roman Papers IV 351; Vogel-Weidemann, Statthalter (note
11) 268.
18 Vcll. II 114-115; Dia LVI 12, 2; Tac., anno I 13,2. On his carceJ', see R. Syme. Marcus
Lepidus. capax illlpcrii, JRS 45 (1955) 22-33 = Ten Studies in Tacitus, Oxford 1970, 30-49.
104-113, roll.owing C. J. Simpson . Tlte "compimcy" uf AD 39. in: C. Deroux (cd.). S/Ildies ill Lalin UICrtlllire and Roman HiS/ai)' fl
Acta Fralrum
Arvalium 27 Oel. AD 9 (CIL VI 32346). A. A. Barret!, Caligllla: Tlw Corrtlpliol/ of Power. London
1989. 104-113, roll.owing C. J. Simpson. Tlte "compimcy" uf AD 39. in: C. Deroux (cd.). S/Ildies
ill Lalin UICrtlllire and Roman HiS/ai)' fl. Bruxclles 1980 (Colleclion Latomus n. 168) 347-366.
would dissociate Lepidus and Gaetulicus.
Laterculi Praesidum I
- B E Thomasson
B. E. Thomasson, Laterculi Praesidum I, Göteborg 1984, 207, no. 12.
= Roman Papers IV 347-365, at 348, 350; U. Vogel-Weidemann
- R Syme
R. Syme, Problems about procollsuls 01 Asia, ZPE 53 (1983) 191-208 = Roman Papers IV
347-365, at 348, 350; U. Vogel-Weidemann, Die Statthalter VOll Alrica und Asia in den Jahren /4-68 n. ChI'. Eine Untersuchung zum Verhältnis Princeps und Senat, Antiquitas 1,31 (1982) 236-249;
Problems (note 11) 191-194 = Roman Papers IV 348-351
- Syme
Syme, Problems (note 11) 191-194 = Roman Papers IV 348-351; Vogcl-Weidemann, Statthalter (note 11) 266-274;
Pi 0 died in An 33, und Tacitu con. idered an obiluary in order, praising him ror hi s moderatio arqfl e sc/pienria J 9
- Lliterculi Thomasson
Thomasson, LlIterculi (note 10) 210, no. 33.
rrilllllplwlis, and was a llcgedly con idered by Augu ws to be capax imperii l8. Pi 0 died in An
33, und Tacitu con. idered an obiluary in order, praising him ror hi s moderatio arqfl e sc/pienria J 9. We CM be conGdent that he did not surfer dO/l/JIario memoriae. StilJ, the rasure i' not
impossible to explain. After Gaius' accessi.on, M. Lepidus' homonymaus son rose to prominence under the new emperor. He was allcgcd to be partner in Gaiu dcbaucheries 20. He was
married to Gaius' sister, Uru iIIa, and was granled a five year remission on the minimum age
for office 21. In 39, however. Lepidus was exccllled, either for adultery with Gaiu" sis ters
(perhap with treasonous intention ), or for complicity in the con piracy of Cn. Cornelius
Gaetulicus (cos. AD 26), or both 22, Either would be sufficient to explain the erasure of his
name from inscriptions, whether or not his memory was official1y condemned in Rome.
86::; 10568; ILS 9375
- Cil Viii
CIL VIII 14"86::; 10568; ILS 9375; Vogel-Weidemann, SIal/halter (nole 11) 105.
Problems (note 11) 194 = Roman Papers IV 351
- Symc
Symc, Problems (note 11) 194 = Roman Papers IV 351;