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62 II. LAODICEIA : THE GRAECO-ROMAN CITY.
w^as romanized after that time. The mutilated inscription, no. 6,
affords no sure criterion of date, but is not likely to be earlier than
the second century. Now Mr. Hicks has brought out the probability
that in A. D. 106 the Ephesian Senate of 450 members was formed by
electing 75 from each tribe; and, as he thinks, it must have been
organized on the Greek model1. On the other hand Hadrian in 139
wrote to the Ephesian Senate requesting them to admit L. Erastus ;
and the analogy of cases in the Bithynian senates forces us to infer
that the constitution was of the same type; and the Bithynian
senates had been of the Roman type since the Lex Pompeia, B. c. 642.
Between ic6 and 129, therefore, a change perhaps occurred in Ephesos
from the Greek to the Roman type ; and the two Laodicean inscrip-
tions point to a change having occurred in Laodiceia about the same
period. Marquardt, on the contrary, considers that the senate of
Miletos, Ephesos, and Cyzicos was Greek in type as late as the time
of the Antonines 3. We must wait for further evidence ; but it seems
clear that the senate of Temnos was Roman in type in the time of
Cicero {p. Flac. 18, 43).
The honour of serving on the senate was accompanied by heavy
burdens. Entry-money was required from new members, at first
only from those who were added beyond the proper number (Pliny
ad Troy. 39), later from all4. They were forced to be personally
1 Mr. Hicks, indeed, considers that a senator at the next revision; and
the proportion, seventy-five per tribe, Hadrian asks the senate to hold the
was always maintained, even after the scrutiny immediately, and admit him
senate was romanized. Pliny Epist. ad provisional!}' until the list was formally
Traj. 39 shows that romanized senates made up at the ensuing revision : the
had a fixed number of members. case of magistrates furnished a complete
2 Mr. Hicks considers that the roman- analogy, for they took their seats at
ized Senate of Ephesos was filled up by once, and were afterwards put on the
cooptation, and that beyond the strict list at the next revision. The scrutiny
number 450, it admitted honorary mem- of Erastus might be performed by the
bers; and he explains the letter of supreme board of magistrates, or by a
Hadrian, and the frequent appoint- committee (decemprimi ?). Pliny, Ep. ad
ments of successful athletes as senators, Traj. 39 and 112, mentions such senators,
as referring to honorary senators. The appointed beneficio imperatoris, as corn-
idea seems to me to be too modern. moa.
Mr. Hicks's only arguments are founded [i Menadier EpJiesii p. 30 : Marquardt
on analogies from the constitution of Staatsalt. I p. 211, Cyzicos p. 53 f.
modern London and the Oxford colleges 4 Pliny consulted Trajan whether
(Sicily affords a nearer analogy, Mar- entry-money was compulsory. Trajan
quardt, p. 211). The senate had become replied, 113, that itwas not compulsory ;
an ordo; and it was an honour and those who were willingly appointed
a title to be of senatorial rank. Now would pay voluntarily from motives of
Erastus in due course could only become ambition; in the case of unwilling
w^as romanized after that time. The mutilated inscription, no. 6,
affords no sure criterion of date, but is not likely to be earlier than
the second century. Now Mr. Hicks has brought out the probability
that in A. D. 106 the Ephesian Senate of 450 members was formed by
electing 75 from each tribe; and, as he thinks, it must have been
organized on the Greek model1. On the other hand Hadrian in 139
wrote to the Ephesian Senate requesting them to admit L. Erastus ;
and the analogy of cases in the Bithynian senates forces us to infer
that the constitution was of the same type; and the Bithynian
senates had been of the Roman type since the Lex Pompeia, B. c. 642.
Between ic6 and 129, therefore, a change perhaps occurred in Ephesos
from the Greek to the Roman type ; and the two Laodicean inscrip-
tions point to a change having occurred in Laodiceia about the same
period. Marquardt, on the contrary, considers that the senate of
Miletos, Ephesos, and Cyzicos was Greek in type as late as the time
of the Antonines 3. We must wait for further evidence ; but it seems
clear that the senate of Temnos was Roman in type in the time of
Cicero {p. Flac. 18, 43).
The honour of serving on the senate was accompanied by heavy
burdens. Entry-money was required from new members, at first
only from those who were added beyond the proper number (Pliny
ad Troy. 39), later from all4. They were forced to be personally
1 Mr. Hicks, indeed, considers that a senator at the next revision; and
the proportion, seventy-five per tribe, Hadrian asks the senate to hold the
was always maintained, even after the scrutiny immediately, and admit him
senate was romanized. Pliny Epist. ad provisional!}' until the list was formally
Traj. 39 shows that romanized senates made up at the ensuing revision : the
had a fixed number of members. case of magistrates furnished a complete
2 Mr. Hicks considers that the roman- analogy, for they took their seats at
ized Senate of Ephesos was filled up by once, and were afterwards put on the
cooptation, and that beyond the strict list at the next revision. The scrutiny
number 450, it admitted honorary mem- of Erastus might be performed by the
bers; and he explains the letter of supreme board of magistrates, or by a
Hadrian, and the frequent appoint- committee (decemprimi ?). Pliny, Ep. ad
ments of successful athletes as senators, Traj. 39 and 112, mentions such senators,
as referring to honorary senators. The appointed beneficio imperatoris, as corn-
idea seems to me to be too modern. moa.
Mr. Hicks's only arguments are founded [i Menadier EpJiesii p. 30 : Marquardt
on analogies from the constitution of Staatsalt. I p. 211, Cyzicos p. 53 f.
modern London and the Oxford colleges 4 Pliny consulted Trajan whether
(Sicily affords a nearer analogy, Mar- entry-money was compulsory. Trajan
quardt, p. 211). The senate had become replied, 113, that itwas not compulsory ;
an ordo; and it was an honour and those who were willingly appointed
a title to be of senatorial rank. Now would pay voluntarily from motives of
Erastus in due course could only become ambition; in the case of unwilling