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423
SLTR.
797. Lintel. Built into a modern wall on the eastern edge of the town. The
block is quite close to the ground and faces north. It has been trimmed off roughly
at the top and has been broken at both ends. Length at the top 1.92 m., at the
bottom 2.12 m.; height 311/., cm. The inscription is in a raised dovetailed frame, with
rosettes at the corners. Length of the frame, excluding the dovetails, 54χ/2 cm.; height
23^ cm. Height of letters 2—41/3 cm. Copied by Magie.
Ewing, P. E. F. 1895, p. 136, no. 62 = Ann. Ep. 1895, no. 77 =C. I. L. in 13604.
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ip KVL H/Wh.- όμι
Inscr. 797. Scale I : io.
Ioui Hammoni.
M(arcus) Aur(elius) Theodor(us)
a quaest(i)onario
Leg(ionis) in Cur(enaicae).
To Jupiter Ammon. Marcus Aurelius Theodorus ex-quaestionariiis of the jd
Legion, Cyrenaica.
Line 1: /OVES, etc., Ewing.
Line J: AQUAE/STONAR1C, Ewing.
In 1. 3 the editors of the C. I. L. read from Mr. Ewing’s copy \q\uae\s\t\i\011arius (?),
but our copy confirms the reading a quaestfonario. The correct form of the expression
is ex quaestionario, as in C. I. L. vm 20251, but it is impossible to read this here,
and the form in the present inscription may have arisen through the resemblance of a
to <ζπί, the Greek equivalent of ex, or perhaps through confusion with the form a
quaestionibus. Quaestionarii are mentioned as specifically attached to legions in other
inscriptions: C. I. L. 11 4156, in 10458 and 12401; they were also attached to the
officium of the legatus of an imperial province, and to the various cohorts stationed
in Rome; see von Domaszewski, Rangordnung d. rom. Heeres, Bonner Jahrb. cxvii
(1908), pp. 9, 17, 21, 34 et al. Among the principales they ranked immediately
below the beneficiarii. It was supposed by Marquardt {Staatsverw? n, p. 552) that they
were not torturers, as had been generally assumed, but judges in military courts, in-
asmuch as legionary soldiers were, as Roman citizens, exempt from torture. On the
other hand, Mommsen pointed out fEph. Ep. iv, p. 421) that many of the legionaries
were not citizens, and, in the belief that legionary quaestionarii are found only in
connection with imperial legates, inferred that they could not have been used solely
for conducting the trials of soldiers. The inscriptions, however, which mention legionary
quaestionarii (y. supra), do not indicate that these officers were especially attached to
the staff of the governor, as was the case with the five quaestionarii in the officium
of the governor of Numidia (G /. L. vm 2586). Nevertheless, the comparatively low
423
SLTR.
797. Lintel. Built into a modern wall on the eastern edge of the town. The
block is quite close to the ground and faces north. It has been trimmed off roughly
at the top and has been broken at both ends. Length at the top 1.92 m., at the
bottom 2.12 m.; height 311/., cm. The inscription is in a raised dovetailed frame, with
rosettes at the corners. Length of the frame, excluding the dovetails, 54χ/2 cm.; height
23^ cm. Height of letters 2—41/3 cm. Copied by Magie.
Ewing, P. E. F. 1895, p. 136, no. 62 = Ann. Ep. 1895, no. 77 =C. I. L. in 13604.
-
ip KVL H/Wh.- όμι
Inscr. 797. Scale I : io.
Ioui Hammoni.
M(arcus) Aur(elius) Theodor(us)
a quaest(i)onario
Leg(ionis) in Cur(enaicae).
To Jupiter Ammon. Marcus Aurelius Theodorus ex-quaestionariiis of the jd
Legion, Cyrenaica.
Line 1: /OVES, etc., Ewing.
Line J: AQUAE/STONAR1C, Ewing.
In 1. 3 the editors of the C. I. L. read from Mr. Ewing’s copy \q\uae\s\t\i\011arius (?),
but our copy confirms the reading a quaestfonario. The correct form of the expression
is ex quaestionario, as in C. I. L. vm 20251, but it is impossible to read this here,
and the form in the present inscription may have arisen through the resemblance of a
to <ζπί, the Greek equivalent of ex, or perhaps through confusion with the form a
quaestionibus. Quaestionarii are mentioned as specifically attached to legions in other
inscriptions: C. I. L. 11 4156, in 10458 and 12401; they were also attached to the
officium of the legatus of an imperial province, and to the various cohorts stationed
in Rome; see von Domaszewski, Rangordnung d. rom. Heeres, Bonner Jahrb. cxvii
(1908), pp. 9, 17, 21, 34 et al. Among the principales they ranked immediately
below the beneficiarii. It was supposed by Marquardt {Staatsverw? n, p. 552) that they
were not torturers, as had been generally assumed, but judges in military courts, in-
asmuch as legionary soldiers were, as Roman citizens, exempt from torture. On the
other hand, Mommsen pointed out fEph. Ep. iv, p. 421) that many of the legionaries
were not citizens, and, in the belief that legionary quaestionarii are found only in
connection with imperial legates, inferred that they could not have been used solely
for conducting the trials of soldiers. The inscriptions, however, which mention legionary
quaestionarii (y. supra), do not indicate that these officers were especially attached to
the staff of the governor, as was the case with the five quaestionarii in the officium
of the governor of Numidia (G /. L. vm 2586). Nevertheless, the comparatively low