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444 XI. APAMEIA.
was far from sufficient; and the Gymnasiarchate could hardly be held
by a man who was not prepared to spend his own money. Thus, in
no. 297 Ti. Claudius Mithridatianus was prepared to spend 19,000
denarii in the second half of his year of office ; and his expenses in the
first half must have been much greater, for it was a year in which the
converdus met at Apameia \
The Gymnasiarchate, in its original conception, was an office of far
loftier type. The Gymnasiarch in the older Graeco-Asiatic cities 2
was commissioned, along with the Paidonomos, to superintend the
educational system which the city maintained; probably he was
especially concerned with the gymnastic side of education ; but the
physical and intellectual sides of education were never divorced
among the Greek races. Nothing could better illustrate the deteriora-
tion in moral fibre of the Graeco-Asiatic cities than the the trans-
formation of the director of education into the purveyor of oil.
(7) Ephebaegh. I adopted too hastily on pp. 111%, 213 n, the
alluring suggestion of M. Collignon and M. Th. Eeinach that Epliebar-
ckos was merely a title of honour, corresponding to the Latin princeps
iuventutis3. But this view cannot be maintained for the Asian cities,
in the face of many cases where Gymnasiarch and Ephebarch seem to
denote magistracies of similar character. In no. 297, the ephebarchate
and the gymnasiarchate held by Mithridatianus must be understood
as offices of the same type. Mommsen points out that the two offices
were sometimes held simultaneously by one person4 : Th. Eeinach
shows that the son of a gymnasiarch at Iasos sometimes was styled
Ephebarch, though he was a mere child not old enough to enter the
college of Epheboi 5. Dittenberger has observed that the Ephebarch
was a magistrate subordinate to the Gymnasiarch °.
(8) Other Officials. Eieenabch, Pabaphylax, Recobd-Keeper
(xpe(»(pv\ag, p. 368) and Agoranomos7 are mentioned. The Erg-
from the Apamean analogy that the 295, 297.
money was expended hy the Gymnasi- * Magistrates' titles were borne by
arch : BCH 1888 p. 206. infants in other cases besides this.
1 The crowded state of the city during e Sylloge Inscript. no. 246.
a conventus is described by Dio Chryso- 7 See pp. 68, 629. Eirenarch pp. 68,
stom (see above p. 428). 450, no. 300. Besides the cities quoted
2 See an instructive example in the p. 68 n, Paraphylax occurs at Ephesos
inscr. quoted p. 440 n. 3. Br. M. DLXXIX, Sebastopolis Car. St.
3 Rev. Et. Gr. 1893 p. 162. EJ no. 25, Kadyanda BCH 1886 p. 54,
4 Eph. Ep.Ij>, 438. It is however not Colossai Wadd. 16936 (above p. 212),
probable that they were conjoined in Eumeneia no. 88. On Trallcis refer
Apameia, for Granianus bears only one also to Ath. Mitfh. 1883 p. 329.
title 294, 296, while his father has both,
was far from sufficient; and the Gymnasiarchate could hardly be held
by a man who was not prepared to spend his own money. Thus, in
no. 297 Ti. Claudius Mithridatianus was prepared to spend 19,000
denarii in the second half of his year of office ; and his expenses in the
first half must have been much greater, for it was a year in which the
converdus met at Apameia \
The Gymnasiarchate, in its original conception, was an office of far
loftier type. The Gymnasiarch in the older Graeco-Asiatic cities 2
was commissioned, along with the Paidonomos, to superintend the
educational system which the city maintained; probably he was
especially concerned with the gymnastic side of education ; but the
physical and intellectual sides of education were never divorced
among the Greek races. Nothing could better illustrate the deteriora-
tion in moral fibre of the Graeco-Asiatic cities than the the trans-
formation of the director of education into the purveyor of oil.
(7) Ephebaegh. I adopted too hastily on pp. 111%, 213 n, the
alluring suggestion of M. Collignon and M. Th. Eeinach that Epliebar-
ckos was merely a title of honour, corresponding to the Latin princeps
iuventutis3. But this view cannot be maintained for the Asian cities,
in the face of many cases where Gymnasiarch and Ephebarch seem to
denote magistracies of similar character. In no. 297, the ephebarchate
and the gymnasiarchate held by Mithridatianus must be understood
as offices of the same type. Mommsen points out that the two offices
were sometimes held simultaneously by one person4 : Th. Eeinach
shows that the son of a gymnasiarch at Iasos sometimes was styled
Ephebarch, though he was a mere child not old enough to enter the
college of Epheboi 5. Dittenberger has observed that the Ephebarch
was a magistrate subordinate to the Gymnasiarch °.
(8) Other Officials. Eieenabch, Pabaphylax, Recobd-Keeper
(xpe(»(pv\ag, p. 368) and Agoranomos7 are mentioned. The Erg-
from the Apamean analogy that the 295, 297.
money was expended hy the Gymnasi- * Magistrates' titles were borne by
arch : BCH 1888 p. 206. infants in other cases besides this.
1 The crowded state of the city during e Sylloge Inscript. no. 246.
a conventus is described by Dio Chryso- 7 See pp. 68, 629. Eirenarch pp. 68,
stom (see above p. 428). 450, no. 300. Besides the cities quoted
2 See an instructive example in the p. 68 n, Paraphylax occurs at Ephesos
inscr. quoted p. 440 n. 3. Br. M. DLXXIX, Sebastopolis Car. St.
3 Rev. Et. Gr. 1893 p. 162. EJ no. 25, Kadyanda BCH 1886 p. 54,
4 Eph. Ep.Ij>, 438. It is however not Colossai Wadd. 16936 (above p. 212),
probable that they were conjoined in Eumeneia no. 88. On Trallcis refer
Apameia, for Granianus bears only one also to Ath. Mitfh. 1883 p. 329.
title 294, 296, while his father has both,