Greek and Roman Slaveries by Eftychia Bathrellou & Kostas Vlassopoulos

Author:Eftychia Bathrellou & Kostas Vlassopoulos [Bathrellou Eftychia & Vlassopoulos Kostas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781118969335
Published: 2022-04-03T10:41:57+00:00

Notes

103 Vlassopoulos 2021a: 92–112.

104 Vlassopoulos 2021a: 134–46.

105 Pylaimenes is a mythical figure principally known from Homer’s Iliad. In Iliad 5.576–9, he is presented as an ally of the Trojans and “leader of the great-hearted Paphlagonian shieldmen”, who was killed by Menelaos.

106 A territory by the Adriatic coast of Italy, not far from Asculum.

107 It is generally agreed by scholars that Livy’s Lentulus was a mistake for Merula and that the latter was the praetor in Rome at the time.

108 Latin text: Gray 2015.

109 Paul, Eph. 6:5–9, Col. 3:22–25, and [Paul], Titus 2:9–10; cf. 11.18.

110 Pragmateutês, the Greek equivalent of the Latin term actor, was a business agent and financial administrator.

111 The Greek word hêrôs (hero) is commonly used for the dead person on Hellenistic and Roman gravestones.

112 Fortuna Redux, literally Fortune the Home-bringer, and Salus, literally Well-being/Safety, were Roman deities.

113 A senator of praetorian rank, appointed by the emperor as head of a legion.

114 Greek text: Ferrari 1997.

115 A religious rite involving the sacrifice of a bull.

116 A euphemistic reference to death.

117 The names Moschos and Moschion are Greek.

118 Greek text: Schepers 1905.

119 The inhabitants of Korykos, an important harbor in Kilikia, in south-eastern Asia Minor, were proverbial informers.

120 A god of Celtic origin (to judge by his name), otherwise unattested.

121 Greek text: Prieur 1989.

122 A military title for an assistant to an army officer.

123 It is unclear whether the message in the quotation marks addresses various persons (named or nicknamed Phalakros, Soterichos, and so on) or its addressee is only Clemens (see a), against whom a series of insults is directed. Apart from being attested as proper names, phalakros can mean “baldy,” and primogenês can mean “first-born”.

124 The word translated here as “tell-tale” (aisôpitana) is not attested elsewhere and literally means “from the land of Aesop.” The phrase to which it belongs has alternatively been understood (by Aubert 1994: 226–7) to belong to the list of insults and mean “Aisopitana, female potter,” whereby “Aisopitana” could be the name or nickname of a female potter or another insult against Clemens (something like “you fabulist woman potter!”).

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