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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18096#0296
SABINIAE TRANQVIL
LINAE AVG CONIVGI
DOMINI NOSTRI
IMP CAES M ANTONI
GORDIANI PII FELICIS
INVICTI AVG PONT
MAX TRIB POT V
IMP VI COS IT P P
PROCOS RESPVBLI
CA SIGVITANORVM
But honourable conduct seems to have been little valued in
that corrupt age, and reform in any branch of military service
was resisted to the utmost. Misitheus was succeeded in the
prefecture by Philip the Arab, and ultimately was sacrificed to
make way for his ambitious projects. Although the name of
Sabinia has been almost forgotten, it is pleasant to find so
many dedications in her honour in remote places in North
Africa. It is, therefore, reasonable to assume that this Empress
had established a good reputation and a degree of popularity
among Roman citizens.
Capitolinus, in his lives of the Gordians, tells us that
Gordian III. did much to promote art, and mentions as an
instance of his regard for beautiful surroundings that he adorned
the peristyle of the family villa in the Prenestine Way with
200 columns of marble—50 of marble of Carystea, 50 of
Claudian, 50 of Synnada, and 50 of marble from Numidia—
the last probably coming from the quarries at Simittu already
referred to. But the name of this Emperor, linked with those
of his grandfather and his uncle, will be for ever associated
with the remote town of Thysdrus, where Gordian I. was drawn
from a peaceful life to raise the standard of resistance against
Maximinus the tyrant, and where a monument was raised in
their honour, whose magnificent remains still excite the wonder
and admiration of every traveller in modern Tunisia. The
name of Thysdrus sounds unfamiliar in speaking of the preset1
Arab village of El-Djem and the colossal amphitheatre thei^
bearing the same title. Indeed, were it not for the presence °,
this structure, the site of the Roman town of Thysdrus woul*
have been difficult to identify; and, owing to the absence °t
inscriptions and records of any kind relating to the amp'1'
theatre, its ruined surroundings might have remained an uf1'
LINAE AVG CONIVGI
DOMINI NOSTRI
IMP CAES M ANTONI
GORDIANI PII FELICIS
INVICTI AVG PONT
MAX TRIB POT V
IMP VI COS IT P P
PROCOS RESPVBLI
CA SIGVITANORVM
But honourable conduct seems to have been little valued in
that corrupt age, and reform in any branch of military service
was resisted to the utmost. Misitheus was succeeded in the
prefecture by Philip the Arab, and ultimately was sacrificed to
make way for his ambitious projects. Although the name of
Sabinia has been almost forgotten, it is pleasant to find so
many dedications in her honour in remote places in North
Africa. It is, therefore, reasonable to assume that this Empress
had established a good reputation and a degree of popularity
among Roman citizens.
Capitolinus, in his lives of the Gordians, tells us that
Gordian III. did much to promote art, and mentions as an
instance of his regard for beautiful surroundings that he adorned
the peristyle of the family villa in the Prenestine Way with
200 columns of marble—50 of marble of Carystea, 50 of
Claudian, 50 of Synnada, and 50 of marble from Numidia—
the last probably coming from the quarries at Simittu already
referred to. But the name of this Emperor, linked with those
of his grandfather and his uncle, will be for ever associated
with the remote town of Thysdrus, where Gordian I. was drawn
from a peaceful life to raise the standard of resistance against
Maximinus the tyrant, and where a monument was raised in
their honour, whose magnificent remains still excite the wonder
and admiration of every traveller in modern Tunisia. The
name of Thysdrus sounds unfamiliar in speaking of the preset1
Arab village of El-Djem and the colossal amphitheatre thei^
bearing the same title. Indeed, were it not for the presence °,
this structure, the site of the Roman town of Thysdrus woul*
have been difficult to identify; and, owing to the absence °t
inscriptions and records of any kind relating to the amp'1'
theatre, its ruined surroundings might have remained an uf1'