Honours for Decimus Junius Brutus
source date: ca. 75 BCE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
availability: Creative Commons licence Attribution UK 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/) All reuse or distribution of this work must contain somewhere a link back to the URL http://inslib.kcl.ac.uk/

Bibliography

[...] pp. 56/57, 6, and plate 3, on which see [...], 2005, 623, whence [...] 53.2044, [...] 2005.1651.

Δέκμον Ἰούνιον Δέκμω υἱὸν Βροῦτον τὸν πάτρωνα Κυραναῖοι

Apparatus

The Cyrenaeans honoured Dekmos Iounios Broutos Decimus Junius Brutus, son of Dekmos Decimus, their patron.

Commentary

The lettering is very similar to that of the marble base dedicated by the Cyrenaians to C. Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus in 67 BCE or shortly later, C.280; the honorand, Decimus Junius Brutus, is probably one of the consuls of 77 BCE; see DPRR Iuni 2023; the base may reflect a trend in placating the rising power of Rome in the transitional phase of Cyrenaica’s incorporation into the control of the Senate, Α.