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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2012
When, under the Flavian dynasty, the Senate began to be opened to men of outstanding ability and wealth from the eastern provinces, the Roman colony of Pisidian Antioch was sure of representation. The rise of the Caristanius family at Antioch has been discussed by Cheesman; their startlingly sudden disappearance from the colony at the end of the first century A.D. left a gap which was partially filled in the second century by another colonial family of note, the Flavonii.
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4 Rev. Ét. Gr. LXI (1948), 199, no. 13Google Scholar. Sanctus is shown by this stone to have been a citizen, not only of Antioch, but also of Attaleia and Ephesus.
5 SEG VI, 563: Γέλλιος Μά[ξιμο]ϲ, a priest of Asclepius; cf. CIL III, 6820. Tiberius Claudius Paullinus, commemorated at Antioch (ILS 7777) and at Pergamum (Wiegand, , Zweiter Bericht über die Ausgrabungen in Pergamon, Berlin, 1932, 39, no. 24Google Scholar).
6 The same Gellius Maximus was ἀπὸ Μουœῖου probably at Ephesus rather than at Smyrna or Alexandria (see PIR 2 IV, G 131). For Cn. Dottius Plancianus, Asiarchus Templi Splendidissimae Civitatis Ephesi, and Duovir Quinquennalis at Antioch, see CIL III, 296 fGoogle Scholar.
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17 Ramsay's, hint (JRS VI (1916), 131Google Scholar) that the name Rusticus was derived from Fulvius Rusticus Aemilianus, who was governor of Galatia c. A.D. 155, is not very convincing : Rusticus is too common a cognomen for its isolated occurrence to be of any help.
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22 If the emendation Flavonii for Flabunii and flavianii in the MSS. of Ammianus Marcellinus XXVIII, 4, 7, is accepted.
23 cf. the consistent appearance of each contributor's town of origin in the Tekmoreian Lists.
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