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Publius Paquius Proculus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

M. Della Corte
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The theory here to be disproved may be said to have grown almost to the dimensions of a legend; and it is a legend containing certain dark implications which have won it the greater popularity. For half a century P. Paquius Proculus has been maligned, and a calumny which should never have been started has had to wait till now for the refutation it deserves. Briefly, the account of this unfortunate Pompeian given by archaeologists who had studied his career was that, thanks to manoeuvre, intrigue and other forms of electoral machination, P. Paquius Proculus, from being a humble baker, rose to the highest magistracy in the city—the duumvirate. For the moment we may ignore the less savoury details which were added in course of time.

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The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , November 1926, pp. 145 - 154
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Copyright © M. Della Corte 1926. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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page 145 note 1 The photographs here reproduced by courteous permission of the Superintendent were taken by Prof. C. Luciano. The inscriptions (figs. 50, 52 and 53) are from tracings in the epigraphic collection of the author.

page 145 note 2 C.I.L. iv, 920.

page 147 note 1 Giornale degli Scavi di Pompei, n.s. vol. i, p. 40.

page 147 note 2 C.I.L. iv. 3145. It is not improbable that what the scribbler intended to write was Paris va(le), a familiar address to the actor Paris, who had a great vogue at Pompeii. Vide Sogliano, , ‘L'attore Paride in Pompei’ in Atti dell' Accad. Pontan., vol. xxxviii (1908)Google Scholar; and cf. Not. d. Scav., 1912, p. 285.

page 147 note 3 Giorn. Scav., n.s. vol. i, p. 57.

page 148 note 1 ibid. p. 63.

page 148 note 2 C.I.L. iv, 879.

page 148 note 3 Reg. vi, Ins. xvi, nos. 7 and 38, generally known as the ‘House of the Amorini dorati.’ I have shown that it was the property of the Poppaei in Case e Abitanti no. 77.

page 148 note 4 Reg. v, Ins ii, north side =Case e Ab. no. 111, often called the ‘House of the Nozze d' Argento.’

page 148 note 5 Case e Ab. no. 109.

page 148 note 6 C.I.L. iv, 7066.

page 148 note 7 Rendiconti della R. Accad. dei Lincei, vol. xvii (1908), p. 554 ff.Google Scholar; cf. also Atti della R. Accad. di Napoli, n.s. vol. i (1908), pp. 205–6Google Scholar.

page 148 note 8 C.I.L. iv, p. 752 (index): cf. vol. x, p. 1093.

page 148 note 9 C.I.L. iv, 1122. On the evidence of this document, which will be mentioned again, it may be taken as proved that Paquius Proculus attained the duumvirate.

page 150 note 1 Rivista Indo-Greco-Italica, Anno iv (1920), p. 118 ff.Google Scholar = Case e Ab. nos. 201–2.

page 150 note 2 The numbers to the right of this and the following texts are those borne by them in C.I.L. iv.

page 150 note 3 Case e Ab. no. 200.

page 151 note 1 All the notices of the Terentii in Pompeii so far found are collected in Rivista I.-G.-It., iii (1919), p. 115Google Scholar, note 1 =Case e Ab. no. 134.

page 151 note 2 Rivista I.-G.-It., vii (1923), p. 280Google Scholar = Case e Ab. no. 429.

page 152 note 1 Not. d. Scav., 1911, p. 427, no. 27.

page 152 note 2 Not. d. Scav., 1912, p. 186, no. 5.

page 152 note 3 Not. d. Scav., 1911, p. 429, no. 44.

page 152 note 4 Not. d. Scav., 1911, p. 429, no. 42.