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Cyrenaica, Pompey and Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

Joyce Reynolds
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The eight inscriptions transcribed and discussed below concern, in the first instance, the early history of Cyrenaica as a Roman province; but since most of them certainly and all of them perhaps involve Pompey and Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus, one of his legates in 67 B.C., they have a much wider significance in illustrating Pompey's policy and position in that year.

1 and 2. Two rectangular marble bases, each inscribed on one face with identical texts. Found at Cyrene, one in 1860, within the Temple of Apollo (now in the British Museum), the other in 1927, in front of the same Temple (left in situ).

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Research Article
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The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 52 , Issue 1-2 , November 1962 , pp. 97 - 103
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Copyright © Joyce Reynolds 1962. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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References

1 The inscriptions are from the collection of Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica, being prepared by R. G. Goodchild and myself.

2 I have to acknowledge my gratitude for discussion and help on individual texts to Professors V. Arangio-Ruiz, H. Bloch, T. S. R. Broughton and A. H. M. Jones, to Messrs. E. Badian and R. G. Goodchild and to S. Weinstock; and for reading and commenting on a more rudimentary version of the article to Mrs. M. I. Henderson and Professor A. H. M. Jones. Without them I should have done even less justice than I have to the material presented here.

3 For recent accounts of Cyrenaican history between 96 and 75, see Jones, A. H. M., Cities of the Eastern Roman Provinces (Oxford, 1937) 360 f.Google Scholar; Romanelli, P., La Cirenaica Romana (Verbania, 1941) ch. 3.Google Scholar Appian, BC I, III, dates the acquisition of Cyrenaica in 74, either in error or, perhaps, because the process of provincialization was not complete until that year.

4 CAH IX, 390.

5 Foreign Clientelae (Oxford, 1958) 140.

6 VI, II. For discussion of a comparable error see Bloch, H., The Structure of Sallust's Historiae in Didascaliae, Studies in honor of Anselm M. Albareda (New York, 1961), p. 73.Google Scholar

7 See e.g. Romanelli, o.c. (n. 3) 50.

8 See e.g. Strabo, VIII, 7, 5, and XIV, 3, 3; Plutarch, Vita Pompeii 28, 3–4; Appian, Mithr. XIV, 96; Servius, ad Verg. Georg. IV, 127.

9 cf. SEG IX, 360.

10 StR 3 II, 656, n. 2.

11 cf. also De Ruggiero, Diz. Ep. s.v. legatus pp. 257 and 544 f.