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529. Honours for Flavius Macedonius Patricius

Description:: Moulded base of marble (w: 0.60 x h: 1.50 x d: 0.74).
Text:: Re-inscribed on one face within a recessed panel (die, w: 0.53 x h: 0.79) and above it, on the upper edge, within a tabella ansata (l.1), both over the erased remains of an earlier text, 694. q.v.
Letters:: Fourth century A.D. capitals: l. 1, 0.07, remainder, 0.03-0.04.
Date:: Fourth century A.D. (lettering).
Findspot:: Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, East side.
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:: Findspot
Bibliography:: Not previously published. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.
Text constituted from:: Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)

Patricii u(iri) c(larissimi)
uirtuti praestanti
aequitati mirauili
temperantia moderato (sic)
5defensori iustitiae
innocentium uindici
Fl(auio) Macedonio Patricio
u(iro) c(larissimo) comiti et duci p(rouinciae) T(ripolitanae)
ordo splendidus et po-
10pulus uniuersus Lep(cis)
Mag(nae) ciuitatis digno
patrono decreuit ad (sic)
constituit

PATRICIIVC
VIRTVTIPRAESTANTI
AEQVITATIMIRAVILI
TEMPERANTIAMODERATO(sic)
5DEFENSORIIVSTITIAE
INNOCENTIVMVINDICI
FLMACEDONIOPATRICIO
VCCOMITIETDVCIPT
ORDOSPLENDIDVSETPO
10PVLVSVNIVERSVSLEP
MAGCIVITATISDIGNO
PATRONODECREVITAD(sic)
CONSTITVIT

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Patricii

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iri

</ex>

</expan>

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<ex>

larissimi

</ex>

</expan>

uirtuti

praestanti

aequitati

mirauili

temperantia

moderato

<note>

sic

</note>

defensori

iustitiae

innocentium

uindici

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<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

auio

</ex>

</expan>

Macedonio

Patricio

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<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

iro

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

larissimo

</ex>

</expan>

comiti

duci

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

rouinciae

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

<ex>

ripolitanae

</ex>

</expan>

ordo

splendidus

pulus

uniuersus

<expan>

<abbr>

Lep

</abbr>

<ex>

cis

</ex>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

Mag

</abbr>

<ex>

nae

</ex>

</expan>

ciuitatis

digno

patrono

decreuit

<note>

sic

</note>

constituit

</ab>

Translation:

(In honour) of Patricius, splendid man (i.e. of senatorial status). To a man outstanding in virtue, admirable for equity, restrained in his discretion, defender of justice, protector of the innocent, Flavius Macedonius Patricius, splendid man (i.e. of senatorial status), count and governor of the province of Tripolitania; the splendid city council and the whole people of the city of Lepcis Magna decreed (this) and set it up to a worthy patron.