Honours for Caeclius SeverusJ. M. ReynoldsJ. B. Ward-Perkins
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Republished from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British
School at Rome, 1952.
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Description of Monument
Moulded base
(0.811.300.75) of brown limestone.
Description of Text
Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel
(die, 0.280.595), from which a previous inscription may have been erased. The first word is cut above the die, and the last line below it.
Description of Letters
Fourth century A.D. capitals: 0.03-0.04.
Date
Fourth century A.D. (lettering).
Locations
Lepcis Magna:
Severan Basilica, East Passage.
Unknown
Findspot
Bibliography
Not previously published.
Text constituted from
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
Text
ElpidiiOmniumuirtutumpraedicabiliuiroetsupradocumentabonitatisinsigniadquemagnificoCaecilioSeuerouiroclarissimoagentiuicespraefectorumpraetorioobmultiformemiudiciorumeiusinsemoderationemexdecretoetsufragioLepcitanipublice
Apparatus
PRAEFF.
sufragiosic
Translation
In honour of Elpidius. To a man deserving praise for all virtues, distinguished and magnificent for goodness beyond documentation, Caecilius Severus, splendid man of senatorial status, acting as deputy for the praetorian prefects; the Lepcitanians set this up publicly on account of the manifold moderation of his judgments in their cases, and in accordance with a decree and a vote
Commentary
l. 1. Elpidius. Perhaps to be identified with
PW VIII, 206, 1 and if so vicarius in 321. See also ILS 8730.