Decree of honours for Plautius Lupus
created: Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
source date: Third century CE
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[...] flamini pontifici [...] [...] uniuersus ordo qua[...] [...]uas ob munificentiam [...] [...]uit in uerba is[...] [...]nus ex testamento [...] de suo [...]

[...]qaca[...] [...] inter ceteras [...] [...]m tii[...] [...]

[...]adit [...] sint quo [...] sententiam dixit fide

Quod expostulantibus uniuersis decurionibus uti Plautio Lupo optimo ordinis nostri uiro biga de publico collocetur quid de ea re fieri placeret censentis Luci Cassi Longini IIuiri designati quid placeret circa id fieri decuriones ita censuerunt Cum Plautius Lupus optimus ordinis nostri uir cum flamonium consensu omnium sibi delatum libenter suscepisset opulentissimos ludos ediderit singulariterque magnificentissima liberalitate promeruerit in IIuiratus quoque honore omnia secundum splendorem natalium suorum dignitatemque coloniae nostrae egerit et effusissimis adfectibus iterum splendidissimos ludos ediderit nec contentus his liberalitatibus cellam thermarum marmoribus Numidicis et opere musaeo exornauerit omni deinde occasione singulariter promeruerit et proxime cum ad munus publicum ex testamento Iuni Afri clarissimae memoriae uiri edendum curator electus esset sollicitudini laborique suo non pepercerit et obseruata amplissimi senatus uoluntate splendidissime munus edi curauerit debentque huiusmodi adfectus remunerari ut reliqui quoque ad eamdem uoluptatem sollicitari possint placere Plautio Lupo optimo ordinis nostri uiro bigam de publico ubi uolet collocari posse Plautius Lupus de suo collocaturum se dixit

Quod expostulantibus uniuersis decurionibus uti Plautio Lupo IIuiro anni praeteriti ob singularem integritatem et modestiam simulque ob munificentiam eius proximam bigam ei de publico poneretur Acilius Pompeianus IIuir uerba fecit quid de ea re fieri placeret Cum Plautius Lupus secundum uerecundiam suam uerba fecerit ne oneraret urbem cuius pubes fidem studium in[...] decurionum adoraret contentumque auctoritate ipsorum de suo si permitterent positurum adque ita in sententiam Marci Rufi flaminis perpetui quid placeret circa id fieri decuriones censuerunt ut Plautius Lupus sibi bigam quo loco uellet de suo poneret

[a. 1]To [...] flamen [priest], pontifex [priest] [...] the whole city council [...] ? statues on account of his munificence [...] ?into words [...]nus in accordance with the will [...]set this up at his own expense [...] [a. 2] [...] among others [feminine] things [...] [a. 3] [...] [line 2] ? by which [...] he spoke his opinion in good faith.

[b] Since all members of the city council are demanding that a two-horse chariot be set up at public expense to Plautius Lupus, one of the best men of our city council, Lucius Cassius Longinus, duovir designate, proposed that action should be taken in this matter and the decision of the city councillors on the actions to be taken in this matter is: Since Plautius Lupus, one of the best men of our city council, willingly undertook the flaminate [priesthood] which was offered to him by universal agreement, and gave very splendid games, and, most remarkably, also served with magnificent liberality in the office of the duumvirate in accordance with the splendid tradition of his family and the status of our colony, and with lavish disposition again gave most splendid games; moreover, not content with this generosity, he ornamented the bathhouse cella with Numidian marbles and mosaic work; subsequently on every occasion he was unusually meritorious, and most recently, when he had been elected as a curator to give a public show in accordance with the bequest of Junius Afer, deceased, splendid man [of senatorial status], he was unsparing of his care and omitted no effort, and having observed the wishes of the honorable council, ensured that the games given were of the most splendid; and since behaviours of this kind ought to be rewarded so that others too could be stimulated to give the same pleasure we decided that a two-horse chariot shall be erected to Plautius Lupius, one of the best men of our city council at a place which he chooses.

[c] Given that everyone of the city councillors is calling for a two-horse chariot appropriate to him to be set up at public expense in honour of Plautius Lupus, duumvir last year, on account of his outstanding integrity and modesty and also because of his munificence, Acilius Pompeianus, duumvir, made the proposal: since Plautius Lupus has said, in accordance with his modesty, that he would not burden the city whose people and good faith, and the zeal of the city counsellors, for him, he loved; and content with their decision, if they would allow it, he would set it up at his own expense; the city councillors decided thus in accordance with the proposal of Marcius Rufus, perpetual flamen [priest], that Plautius Lupus should erect the two-horse-chariot in his honour in whatever place he wished, at his own expense.

Ti. Plautius Lupus: PIR P 0469, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/10501; also in 593, line 7, 8; 632, 634

L. Iunius Afer: PIR I 0728, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/7912