03-27-2014, 11:21 PM
Quote:Isidoros a munificas.I must presume to disagree. Isidoros is described as 'aktouarion'; then there is a lacuna, followed by what might be the end of a name (though, if I read it correctly, the editor of the papyrus does not seem to think so) and then mounifikas.
Quote:Peteesios is mentioned twice, once only as a dekadarchos and another (2.7 or 2.174, if the latter is indeed the number of the line...) as a (dekadarchos) opiniator.I think that 174 is, indeed, the line number.
Quote:The opiniatores are (or seem to be), a body of men within a unit that are responsible for bringing in the pay to the unit.I could not find opiniator but I did find opinator, which might be the same. My dictionary defines this as "one who collected the tribute-corn in the provinces for the army" and cites Cod. Justin. 12, 38, 11. The Code reads, "Opinatoribus, id est exactoribus militaris annonae . . . ". Scott translates this as, "Commissaries, that is officials employed in the distribution of rations to the soldiers . . . " Exactores, however, are more properly defined as tax collectors, I think, so these men could be those entrusted with collecting the annona.
Michael King Macdona
And do as adversaries do in law, -
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
(The Taming of the Shrew: Act 1, Scene 2)
And do as adversaries do in law, -
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
(The Taming of the Shrew: Act 1, Scene 2)