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This study doubles the available evidence for office holders and senators from the late antique Balkans by publishing a large number of addenda and corrigenda to PLRE. The people collected are recorded on inscriptions from Latin-speaking provinces ranging from Raetia in the west to Scythia Minor in the east. Current scholarship on these provinces has neglected this evidence, preferring to characterize the late antique Balkans as a region almost wholly lacking in civilian society. The new evidence from Dalmatia further allows a reassessment of the position of Salona in the fifth century, and the careers of the emperors who retired there.
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This set of addenda to the Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE)1 follows the same format as that I have published based on the Christian inscriptions of Britain, Gaul, and Spain.2 These addenda are taken from the late antique inscriptions of the Balkans, in particular from the Latin-speaking provinces of Noricum, Raetia, Dalmatia,3 Valeria, Pannonia,4 Dacia, Moesia, and Scythia Minor. No doubt the more southerly provinces of Thrace, Epirus, and Macedonia could produce their own addenda (for example the notarius and vir clarrisimus Barbationis from Thessalonica [ILCV, 124], or Andreas, a vir clarissimus from Epirus [AE (1984), 816]). It should also be pointed out that this set of addenda is effectively "Part I." The reason for this is that we await the announced editions of the Christian inscriptions of Salona and Sirmium, and the revision of Besevliev's Spätgriechische und spätlateinische Inschriften aus Bulgarien. The new edition for Salona was announced as long ago as 1992,5 and no will doubt include new inscriptions commemorating those deserving of a place in PLRE. This set of addenda includes people from the Balkans attested outside the Balkans, including Rome.6 Also included are examples from those parts of modern Croatia or Slovenia that fell within the Italian provinces in late antiquity. No apology is made for the inclusion of twenty individuals attested on lead seals who have been shamelessly lifted from an article by Florin Curta.7
It should be noted that there are some instances of people who were mentioned in PLRE, but who did not get their own entry. For instance, Aurelia Aminia rated a mention in the entry...