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The Consuls of A.D. 97: Addendum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

Ronald Syme
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No year can excite a sharper curiosity than that which was introduced by Nerva, the new Emperor, and L. Verginius Rufus, each holding the fasces for the third time. A small but significant fragment of the Ostian Fasti was recently discovered by G. Barbieri. It came too late to be used by A. Degrassi in his Fasti Consolari (1952), but that scholar was fortunately able to publish it in his ‘Aggiunte’ (p. 288), whence JRS XLIII (1953), 150, with brief comments. The fragment carries the names of three consuls, disposed vertically; it was assumed to be the right-hand side of a block, giving the second consul of three successive pairs; and it was reproduced as such. Meanwhile, however, Barbieri himself had published the fragment in the course of 1953.

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The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 44 , Issue 1-2 , November 1954 , pp. 81 - 82
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Copyright © Ronald Syme 1954. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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References

1 ‘Nuovi frammenti di Fasti Ostiensi,’ Studi Romani I, no. 4 (Luglio-Agosto, 1953), 365 ff. There is a photograph on plate I, facing p. 370. Dr. Barbieri dispatched an offprint with courtesy and promptitude, but (through mishap), it only came into my hands towards the end of the year, when JRS XLIII was already with the printers.

2 Dig. XLVIII, 8, 6; cf. Dio LXVIII, 2, 4 (under Nerva).

3 viz., the suffectus of 87 and the second of the two men on CIL IX, 2455 = ILS 1034 (Saepinum), whose consulate should fall early in Hadrian's reign, cf. JRS XLIII (1953), 159; Garzetti, A., ‘Nerviana,’ Aevum XXVII (1953), 459Google Scholar ff. Barbieri prefers to identify the jurist with the consul of 87 (o.c. 368).

4 PIR 2, D 133.

5 As was done in PIR 2, D, Add. et Corr., p. XII.

6 cf. JRS XLIII (1953), 150; also 156, where it is suggested that SHA, Marcus 1, 3, could be emended to read ‘mater Domitia Lucilla Calvisii Tulli <filia, avia materna Lucilla Domitii Tulli> bis consulis filia’.

7 CIL V, 6974 = ILS 1021 (Augusta Taurinorum).

8 For the nomenclature, cf. CIL XIV, 2610 = ILS 952, set up by the man himself.

9 Groag, E., ‘Prosopographische Beiträge V. Sergius Octavius Laenas Pontianus,’ Jahreshefte XXI/II (1924)Google Scholar, Beiblatt 425 ff., with the table on 435 f.

10 Dio LXVIII, 4, 1.

11 Epigraphica XIII (1951), 22, no. 29.

12 PIR 1, R 85.

13 Tacitus, Ann. XIV, 59, 1.

14 CIL XVI, App. no. 12 = ILS 9059.

15 Tacitus, Agr. 9, 1. For instances, cf. JRS XLIII (1953), 152 f.

16 IGR III, 559 = TAM II, 2, 570 (Tlos).

17 cf. Martial XI, 15.

18 cf. ILS 1021.

19 o.c. 368, followed by A. Garzetti, o.c. 459.

20 cf. JRS XLIII (1953), 155.

21 Reproduced in his article, plate I. A consular pair for November–December was assumed in JRS XLIII (1953), 151: perhaps Q. Fulvius Gillo Bittius Proculus and P. Julius Lupus (ib. 154).

22 Pliny, Epp. II, 1, 4.

23 ibid. IX, 13, 11, cf. 13.