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A Roman law concerning piracy

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When L. Aemilius Paulus visited Delphi after the crowning victory of Pydna his eye rested on a lofty pedestal, upon which his vanquished enemy, Perseus, was intending to set up a golden statue of himself. He determined that his own figure should occupy the vacant place, and his orders to this effect were carried out. No trace of the statue (or group) has been recovered, but there are considerable remains of the sculptured frieze, representing the cavalry skirmish which formed the prelude to the battle of Pydna, and it has been possible to reconstruct the monument in the Museum at Delphi with the surviving blocks and a free use of plaster to fill the gaps (fig. 54 and plate xx).

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Copyright © H. Stuart Jones 1926. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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page 155 note 1 Similar monuments had been erected in honour of Eumenes II, king of Pergamon, and of Prusias II, king of Bithynia, in 182 B.C. (Dittenberger, , S.I.G. 630, 632Google Scholar); a reconstruction of the latter is given by Pomtow in Berl. phil. Woch, 1912, p. 444.

page 155 note 2 Plutarch, Aem. Paul. 28.

page 155 note 3 Fig. 54 (from a drawing by Miss A. M. Calverley) gives a restoration of the monument as seen from the side. That the statue was equestrian was shown by Homolle, M. in Bull. Corr. Hell. xxi (1897), p. 623Google Scholar, and our restoration which differs somewhat from that of M. Tournaire (Fouilles de Delphes, Album, pl. xvi) follows a well-known type. A similar group, representing Philopoemen and Machanidas, was set up at Delphi by the Achaean league (Plutarch, Philop. 10); on the extant remains of the base and inscription see Pomtow in Klio, ix (1909), p. 160 ffGoogle Scholar. Plate xx gives a diagram, also prepared by Miss Calverley, of the narrow front with the inscription of Aemilius Paulus. The position of the other inscriptions is summarily indicated.

page 155 note 4 Klio, xvi, 50.

page 157 note 1 Comptes rendus de l' Acad. Inscr. 1904, p. 532 ff.

page 157 note 2 Comptes rendus de l' Acad. Inscr. 1923, p. 129 ff.

page 157 note 3 Marked with a cross on pl. xx.

page 158 note 1 I desire to express my gratitude to Prof. Colin for kindly supplying me with photographs and information.

page 158 note 2 It has not seemed worth while to reprint the text in extenso, but all references given in this article are to Prof. Colin's numbering of the lines. Levi, Mario Attilio (Atti della reale accademia delle scienze di Torino, lx (1925), p. 354 ff.Google Scholar) has criticised some of M. Colin's restorations.

page 158 note 3 I must express my thanks to Mr. M. N. Tod for kindly examining it with me.

page 158 note 4 Comptes rendus de l' Acad. lnscr. 1924, p. 284 ff.

page 159 note 1 This restoration is somewhat doubtful.

page 159 note 2 In B 30 ὦσιν καοπευοντ[ες should be read.

page 161 note 1 For the coins of Aesillas reference may be made to Gaebler, , Die antiken Münzen Nordgriechenlands, iii (1), Berlin, 1906, p. 73Google Scholar; cf. Grose, , Catalogue of the McClean Collection of Greek Coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum, ii (1926), p. 86Google Scholar. I may, in passing, remark that the statement made in Pauly-Wissowa, ii, A 2 Sp. 1510, s.v. Sentius no. 3, that Bruttius Sura (the name is written Βραίτιος (i.e. Brettius) in I.G. 9 (2), 613) struck coins under L. Julius Caesar as ‘legatus pro praetore’ is incorrect.

page 162 note 1 Ath. 5, 213a.

page 162 note 2 cf. Ormerod, in J.R.S. xii, p. 40Google Scholar.

page 162 note 3 Fam. xiii, 73, 2, cf. Strab. xii, 1, 4, xii, 6, 3 xiv, 5, 24.

page 163 note 1 The fullest presentation of the evidence for these events will be found in Bouché-Leclercq, , Histoire des Séleucides, vol. i (1913), pp. 405 ff.Google Scholar, vol. ii (1914) pp. 602 ff.

page 163 note 2 Hist. ii Fr. 43 Maurenbrecher.

page 163 note 3 Mr.Grueber, (Coins of the Roman Republic, ii, 360)Google Scholar assigned this coin to a Spanish mint for no 4) adequate reason. The date of the silver coinage struck by Lentulus as quaestor or cur(ator) den(ariis) fl(andis) (Grueber, op. cit. p. 358 f.) requires further discussion; Mommsen's attempt to bring it into connexion with the statement of Plutarch (Lucull. 13), which he interprets as implying that he struck eighteen million denarii as quaestor ex senatus consulto in 74 B.C., is a hazardous speculation. On the difficult questions relating to the relationship of the Lentuli Marcellini and the career of the first-named see Pauly-Wissowa, iy, pp. 1389 ff., nos. 230, 231, 238.

page 164 note 1 40, 6.

page 164 note 2 Joseph. Ant. Jud. xiii, 16, 4Google Scholar; Strab. xvi, 2, 3.

page 164 note 3 Syr. 49.

page 165 note 1 Sest. 27.

page 166 note 1 ῾Στρατηγὸς ὕπατυς: ‘étude sur la traduction en grec du titre consulaire’ (Bibliothèque des écoles françaises d' Athènes et de Rome, cxiii, Paris, 1918)Google Scholar.

page 167 note 1 op. cit. p. 13, note 4, p. 31 ff.

page 167 note 2 Revue de philologie, xxiii (1899), 262Google Scholar.

page 167 note 3 The reference is to the well-known Rhodian decree published by Dittenberger (S.I.G. 745, 3) and the base from Halicarnassus (Dessau, 8771). Foucart's view is accepted by Hiller von Gärtringen in his note on the former inscription.

page 169 note 1 cf. ἐκτὺς τόυ στίχου in the S.C. de Stratonicensibus (Dittenberger, , O.G.I. 441. 63Google Scholar).

page 169 note 2 Le Sénat de la république romaine, ii, p. 157.

page 169 note 3 Ad Quint. Fratr. ii, 11 (13), 3.

page 170 note 1 Cic. Att. ii, 18, 2Google Scholar = How, Select Letters of Cicero, No. 10, 2.

page 170 note 2 C.I.L. i (2)2. 582, Bruns, Fontes iuris romani, p. 53.

page 171 note 1 ii, 25, 107; ii, 49, 201.

page 171 note 2 It would be irrelevant here to discuss the date of this trial, on which see the Appendix to Greenidge and Clay, Sources, for Roman History, B.C. 133–70, p. 226.

page 171 note 3 The question whether this law set up a special or a permanent quaestio de maiestate cannot be discussed here. It is clear from Cicero's allusions in de Or. ii, 40, 201 and Part. orat. 30, 105 that it dealt with the definition of maiestas and of the offence described as minuere maiestatem. Bantia was no doubt bound to Rome by a foedus containing the usual clause maiestatem populi Romani Comiter conservanto.

page 171 note 4 Festus s.v. praefectura.

page 172 note 1 It is first found in the inscription of about 140 B.C. relating to the arbitral award of the Milesians in the age-long dispute concerning the ager Dentheliates (Dittenberger, , S.I.G. 683. 54, 64Google Scholar).

page 172 note 2 Ad Att. 3, 23, 4 = How, Select Letters of Cicero, 14, 4.

page 172 note 3 Staatsrecht, 1, 291, note 3.

page 172 note 4 In discussing this alliance Prof. Ormerod (Piracy in the Ancient World, p. 210) draws an interesting parallel between the relations of Mithradates with the pirates and those of the Sultans with the Barbary corsairs in the sixteenth century.

page 173 note 4 Dessau 38, cf. 5800; Niccolini, Fasti Tribunorum plebis, p. 371 f.