Rome, the Greek World, and the East, Vol. 1 - The Roman Republic and the Augustan Revolution

Triumvirate and Principate 

oftheres publica.ThepossiblelimitsofthedateareindicatedbyOctavian’s
titulatureasitsurvives:‘‘consuldesignateforthesecondandthirdtime,’’so
betweenand..IfthiswerethesamejourneyonthepartofDeme-
trius as that which produced no. , the document would date to the first
yearorsooftheperiod.

. LetterofOctaviantoRhosus,Syria.–..IGLSIII,no.;
Sherk,Roman Documents,no.,i.

ThisisacoveringletterorderingthefilinginthepublicarchivesofRhosus
ofno.(nos.and,whichareinscribedonthesamestone,werewrit-
tenlaterthanthis).Octaviansurprisinglyomitsthetitletriumvir rei publicae
constituendae,butisImperatorIV(from..)andconsuldesignateforthe
secondandthirdtime,so–..Thedateistherefore–..Hewrites
‘‘WhatiswrittenbelowhasbeenexcerptedfromapillarontheCapitolat
Rome,and[Iaskthatitshouldbe]filedinyourpublicrecords.’’Copiesare
also to be sent for registration toTarsus, Antioch, and Seleucia.The letter
isevidencethatOctavian’srelationswithcitiesintheGreekEastwerenot
confined to the special case of Aphrodisias; and, along with nos. –, that
GreekcitiesotherthanAphrodisiascontinuedtobeinactivecontactwith
theinstitutionsoftheres publicainRome.

. EdictofOctavianontheprivilegesofveterans.–..?,BGUII,
no.;CILXVI,p..no.;Riccobono,FIRA^2 I,no.;
Cavenaille,Corpus Papyrorum Latinarum,no.;S.Daris,Documenti per
la storia dell’esercito romano in Egitto(),no..

The edict is quoted in a Latin papyrus of the first century..,itselfevi-
dently part of a report of legal proceedings. It begins ‘‘Imp. Caesar [d]ivi
filiustrium[v]irreipublicaeconsultor(?)’’—or‘‘consulter’’(consulforthe
thirdtime)or‘‘consuliter.’’(consulforthesecondtime)or‘‘constit(uendae)
iter(um)’’(toreorganizeforthesecondtime)—‘‘said,’’whichseemstosug-
gestadatebetweenand.Theextremelylegalistictermsofthedocument
arenoticeable,includingforinstanceaprovisionforveteranstobeenrolled
inacertaintribeforthecensusandforvotingpurposes.

Itwillbeconvenienttocompletethedossierwiththree‘‘post-Triumviral’’
documents.ItistobeemphasisedthatinallthreethetitulatureofOctavian
mentionsnopublicofficeotherthantheconsulate.

. LetterofOctaviantoMylasa,Caria,inresponsetoanembassy...
(or?).Sherk,Roman Documents,no..