Mile ?V: Milestone of Nero
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: 54-55 CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he

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Claudius Drusus Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator uias fecit per Lucium Pedium Blaesum proconsulem Cretae et Cyrenarum

Νέρων Κλαύδιος Δροῦσος Καῖσαρ Σεβαστὸς Γερμανικὸς Αὐτοκράτωρ ὁδοὺς ἐπόησε διὰ Λουκίου Πεδίου Βλαίσου ἀνθυπάτου Κρήτης καὶ Κυρήνης [...]

Apparatus

[Latin] Nero Claudius Drusus Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator made roads through the agency of Lucius Pedius Blaesus, proconsul of Crete and Cyrene

[Greek] Nero Claudius Drusus Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator made roads through the agency of Lucius Pedius Blaesus, proconsul of Crete and Cyrene

Commentary

Lines 1-3: The titulature suggests the first months of Nero’s reign

Lines 5 (and 13): Pedius Blaesus (PIR2, P 0212, Thomassen, Laterculi 38.023) is on record in Tacitus, Annales 14.18 (available at Perseus) and Hist. 1.77.6 (available at Perseus) as a proconsul prosecuted by Cyrene and condemned for extortion in 59 CE but reinstated by Otho.

Line 16: The mileage figure may have been 7 or 8 in the light of the distance from Cyrene