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CLAUDIUS AT BAIAE*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 September 2015

H.C. Mason
H.C. Mason*
Affiliation:
Merton College, Oxford
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henry.mason@classics.ox.ac.uk
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On 15 March 46 Claudius published at Baiae an edict enfranchising the Anauni, Tulliasses and Sinduni. The citizenship of these tribespeople in the Italian Alps had previously been uncertain: they were attached to the nearby municipium of Tridentum, which already enjoyed Roman citizenship, but were themselves no more than de facto Roman citizens. Claudius now confirmed their legal status as Romans.

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Research Article
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 65 , Issue 2 , December 2015 , pp. 732 - 735
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Copyright © The Classical Association 2015 

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Footnotes

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For helpful advice and criticism I would like to thank Mr A. Blanco Pérez, Dr G. Kantor and Mr R. Lane Fox, and Prof. B.J. Gibson and CQ's anonymous referee, none of whom is responsible for errors that remain. This work was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

References

1 CIL V 5050 = ILS 206 = E.M. Smallwood, Documents Illustrating the Principates of Gaius, Claudius and Nero (Cambridge, 1967), no. 368.

2 Text from Smallwood (n. 1); translation from R.K. Sherk, The Roman Empire: Augustus to Hadrian (Cambridge, 1988), no. 52, with slight modifications.

3 B.M. Levick, Claudius (London, 1990), 94, 82; cf. J. Osgood, Claudius Caesar (Cambridge, 2011), 193.

4 B.M. Levick in ead. (ed.), The Ancient Historian and his Materials: Essays in Honour of C.E. Stevens on his Seventieth Birthday (Farnborough, 1975), 1–2; cf. also ead., ‘Nero's quinquennium’, in C. Deroux (ed.), Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History, vol. 3 (Brussels, 1983), 211–25, at 218 n. 35.

5 Cf. W. Eck, Die staatliche Organisation Italiens in der hohen Kaiserzeit (Munich, 1979), 8.

6 Cf. F.G.B. Millar, The Emperor in the Roman World (London, 1977), 24–8 and esp. 27 n. 32. Our copy of the inscription was found at Tridentum, a town to which the relevance of the matter is obvious.

7 Cf. R.J.A. Talbert, The Senate of Imperial Rome (Princeton, 1984), 209.

8 Prof. Gibson asks whether parallels can be found for other edicts issued on the Ides of March by other emperors. Unfortunately I find none in J.H. Oliver, Greek Constitutions of Early Roman Emperors from Inscriptions and Papyri (Philadelphia, 1989) (a work whose lack of a proper index makes it difficult to consult), nor via EDCS. But it is certainly possible that something has escaped my notice.

9 I owe this point to Dr Kantor.