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Notes on Cyrenaican Inscriptions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 August 2013
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1. THE GOVERNMENT OF CYRENAICA IN THE THIRD CENTURY A.D.
In PBSR XXX (1962) p. 37 f. R. G. Goodchild and I published two inscriptions that mention procurators operating in Cyrene in the early third century A.D. In the earlier, the procurator of three Augusti (one of whom was subjected to damnatio memoriae) is described by the garrison commander at Cyrene as praeses optimus et benignissimus, a description which would be appropriate to a governor; in the later, dated in the reign of Gordian, a procurator is presented as himself conducting the ceremonial dedication of a monument erected by the garrison in honour of the emperor, an action appropriate to a governor. In our notes we dealt much too briefly with the position of these men, simply stating our view that the title praeses, if not purely honorific, might indicate a temporary interruption of the normal system of administration by the proconsul Cretae et Cyrenarum, and that the basic work of a procurator in Cyrenaica was probably in the ager publicus. I do not believe that there is good reason to change this view; but in the light of questions that have been put to me about it, I would like to offer a supplementary note in order to justify it.
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page 52 note 1 Possible third-century proconsuls whose connexion with Cyrenaica is attested are Q,. Caecilius Rufinus (PIR C2, 75), P. Flavius Pudens Pomponianus (PIR F2, 346), Iulius, C. Septimius Castinus (PW X, col. 803 f.)Google Scholar, Marcellianus, Numisius (PW XXXIV, col. 1400Google Scholar and cf. Romanelli, P., La Cirenaica romana (Verbania, 1943) p. 129, n. 1Google Scholar), Fidus A[… ? …] Gallus [..]acc[… (PIR F2, 153); all could be of the late second century.
page 52 note 2 ILS 1179.
page 52 note 3 IG II–III2 4071, cf. PIR C2, 1044.
page 52 note 4 ILS 1187.
page 52 note 5 I am told by Professor Syme that if the career proceeded normally the gap between quaestorship and legionary command should not be more than a dozen years.
page 52 note 6 But cf. the similar dearth of recorded proconsuls in Cyprus, see the index to Barbieri, G., L'Albo senatorio da Settimio Severo a Carino (Roma, 1952), p. 787Google Scholar.
page 53 note 1 See Henzen, W., Acta Fratrum Arvalium (Berlin, 874)Google Scholar; Pasoli, E., Acta Fratrum Arvalium (Bologna, 1950)Google Scholar.
page 53 note 2 Henzen, p. 8.
page 53 note 3 ILS 112.
page 53 note 4 Henzen, p xlii b 1.3.
page 53 note 5 Henzen, p. ci, 1.12.
page 54 note 6 Henzen, p. 100 f.
page 54 note 7 The interpretation of the first surviving stroke as part of N is more convincing on the stone than it may seem from the photograph of the squeeze.
page 54 note 8 Henzen, p. 103.
page 54 note 9 Marcus became Armeniacus in 164.