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Ramsay, William Mitchell
The cities and bishoprics of Phrygia: being an essay of the local history of Phrygia from the earliest time to the Turkish conquest (Band 1,2): West and West-Central Phrygia — Oxford, 1897

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App. I. INSCRIPTIONS. 603

entered together1. This shows that membership of. the Gerousia was to
a considerable extent a family matter in Sebaste: probably it was
founded by an association of persons varying greatly in age. It must be
understood that a grown person is either z^'o? or yepmv ; and that one
who was not a vios might enter the Gerousia. But the discrepancy of
age in the family of Julius Proclus is extreme, and suits rather an
association founding a new society than the cooptation of new members
year by year (as M. Paris supposes) into an existing society.

Names connected with the cult of Mithras are very rare in Asia
Minor. Mithradates or Mithridates probably spread purely for historical
reasons, and was hardly connected with Mithraic worship. Mithres is
quoted by M. Cumont Monum. relat. au culle cle Miihra I p. 80 as occur-
ring five times in Lydia, twice in Caria, once in Pisidia, and once in
Phrygia; but it too may have its origin not in religious reasons but
as a mere Greek diminutive of Mithridates.

The incorrect spelling Mithridates is found as early as Xenophon
Anab. II 5j 35; HI 3, 4, and in later time became almost universal. It
occurs at Apameia in the first and second centuries after Christ no. 294-
297, and at Dorylaion ab. 70-60 B.C. (if we can trust Cicero's spelling
pro Flacco 17). This inscription of Sebaste is almost unparalleled in
preserving the correct form so late and so far west.

476. (R. 1883). Sivasli. M. Paris in BCH 1883 p. 449. Kara to.
TToWaKLS bo^avra rfj (3ov\ri kcu ra S?;/;.u Mepptav 'Apianjv Tevdpavrlha
ap\iipeiav ttjs 'Acrtas ol ffitot dpeirrol irap' kavrajv eTrt/xeA^cra/xeVov KA(au-
8iou) Mep.p.iov Kvpov rod Tpocj)e(os avrfjs. stovs airO'2, /xij(yos) ia', k (or
1, aK).

The date is a. d. 205. Evidently Claudia Teutbrantis, no. 475, in
a.d. 99 was an ancestor of Memmia Ariste Teuthrantis. The relation in
which the latter stood to Claudius Memmius Cyrus, her Tpotpevs, is
uncertain. Was the latter a freedman of her family, who brought her
up when she was left an orphan ?

477. (R. 1883). Sivasli. M. Paris in BCH 1883 p. 451. ['Ay}adfj
rvxil- V /3. Kal 6 8. iTti\j.rjaav ~K6(Ivtov) ^Sleppiov Xaplbi-jpov Tevdpavra
'Aalas ap\ie.p£u>v eyyovov, ijpcoa 3, apiarov pr\ropa. rfjs ava(TTa<reoos Ttpovorj-
<jap.£vr\si SraretAta? KaWiyovqs rrjs p.rjrpos avrov. erous tk&', p.r](yos) 6'.

1 See stemma no. 477. On the sense, implying that Q. Mem-

2 M. Paris reads erovs nff. My copy mius was dead, see no. 226.

H • . m °

has M • I which may denote pr/uos rj. ' TPOtsHZ. M. Paris reads noirja-a-

3 The text has a point after tjpaa. plvr)s.
 
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