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3 He is also an accomplished epigraphist with many detailed studies to his credit (e.g., Epigrafia, diritto e società. Studio quantitativo dell'epigrafia latina di zona Insubre (Biblioteca di Athenaeum 34, 1997)Google Scholar.

4 Apparently it is not an ancient etymology; it is not listed in Maltby, R., A lexicon of ancient Latin etymologies (Leeds 1991)Google Scholar, a standard tool not utilized by Agnati.

5 See Demougin, S., Prosopographie des chevaliers romains julio-clandiens (Rome 1992) 38–41 Google Scholar, the most recent discussion of the career of T. Marius (not mentioned by Agnati); she adduced the inscription from Corfinium to elucidate the idiom of Valerius. It is interesting to observe that the only other occurrence of the expression castrensis honos is also in Val. Max. (8.14.5), referring to a military award; cf. Linderski, J., “Silver and gold of valor: the award of armillae and torques ,” Latomns 60 (2001) 4–5, 9 Google Scholar.

6 Perhaps we should read Urvinas; the manuscripts are corrupt and read Urinas and Uirinas. The reading Urbinas is due to Pighius; cf. J. Briscoe in the apparatus in his Teubner edition of Valerius (1998).

7 I did not see the article by Didu, but Menneila, G., “I prefetti degli imperatori a dei cesari,” Epigraphica 50 (1988) 67 Google Scholar, adduces our inscription among 33 other attestations of the office in Italy. He offers no dis cussion of the text.

8 Cf. Orellius, I. C., Inscriptionum Latinarum amplissima collectio 2 (Turici 1828) no. 3714Google Scholar; Wilmanns, G., Exempla inscriptionum Latinarum 1 (Berolini 1873) no. 1459Google Scholar.

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11 Petrus Apianus published Inscriptions sacrosanctae vetustatis (Ingolstadt 1534)Google Scholar; Michael Fabricius Ferrarinus (see Mommsen in CIL X, pp. xxxix-xl) composed in the last quarter of the 15th c. an important sylloge of inscriptions (in three editions); on the collectanea (of c.1500) of Iulius Fantagutius (Giuliano Fantaguzzi, a rerum scriptor from Cesena), see ibid. p. xxvii, and Bormann, CIL XI, pp. 3,893.

12 See now Reddé, M., “Legio VIII Augusta,” in Bohec, Y. Le (ed.), Les légions de Rome sous le haut-empire, 1 (Lyon 2000) 123 Google Scholar; cf. Ritterling, E., “Legio,” RE 12.2 (1925) 1652–61Google Scholar.

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17 For this usage, see Cic. Cat. 4.21: Marius, qui bis Italiam obsidione … liberavit (cf. also Rab. perd. 29; Post red. ad Quir. 20); Hist. Aug. 36.4: (Aurelianus) Vindelicos obsidione barbarica liberavit. Cf. TLL s.v. “obsidium,” col. 225.48-53.

18 Cf. Mommsen, T., Römisches Staatsrecht l³ (Leipzig 1887) 573 Google Scholar, with the quotation of our inscription.

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