Conventions and abbreviations

Conventions

Italics have been used for Greek or Latin words, which are either explained where they occur or in the glossary at the end of Vol. 2. Figures in bold type (e.g. 1.4b) refer to texts in Vol. 2.

Abbreviations

With the exception of the following works, we have used a fairly full form of abbreviation; any doubts about the complete version of periodical titles will be solved with reference to L’anné philologique.

AE

    L’année épigraphique (Paris, 1888–)

ANEW

    Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, edd. H. Temporini & W. Haase (Berlin, 1972–)

BCACR

    Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma

BEFAR

    Bibliothèque des Ecoles françaises d’Athènes et de Rome

B. M. Coins

    Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum, H. M. Mattingly et al. (London, 1923–)

CAH

    Cambridge Ancient History

CIL

    Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (Berlin, 1863–)

CIMRM

    Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithrae, ed. M. J. Vermaseren (Leiden, 1956)

CSEL

    Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum

CTh

    Codex Theodosianus (Berlin, 1905)

EPRO

    Etudes préliminaires sur les religions orientales dans l’empire romain (Leiden, 1961–)

FGH

    Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, F. Jacoby (Berlin and Leiden, 1923–58)

FIRA

    Fragmenta Iuris Romani Anteiustiniani, edd. S. Riccobono et al., 2nd edn (Florence, 1968)

IG

    Inscriptiones Graecae (Berlin, 1895–)

IGR

    Inscriptiones Graecae ad res Romanas pertinentes, ed. R. Cagnat (Paris, 1906–27)

IGUR

    Inscriptiones Graecae Urbis Romae, ed. L. Moretti (Rome, 1968–)

ILAfr

    Inscriptions latines d’Afrique, edd. R. Cagnat et al. (Paris, 1923)

ILCV

    Inscriptiones latinae Christianae Veteres, ed. E. Diehl (Berlin, 1925–31)

ILLRP

    Inscriptiones Latinae Liberae Reipublicae, ed. A. Degrassi (Florence, 1957–63)

ILS

    Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae, ed. H. Dessau (Berlin, 1892–1916)

JRS

    Journal of Roman Studies

MEFR(A)

    Mélanges de l’Ecole française de Rome (: Antiquité)

MRR

    The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, T. R. S. Broughton, 4 vols (New York, 1951–86)

PdP

    Parola del Passato

RE

    Paulys Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, edd. G. Wissowa, E. Kroll et al. (Berlin & Stuttgart, 1893–78)

RIB

    The Roman Inscriptions of Britain I, edd. R. G. Collingwood and R. P. Wright (Oxford 1965, repr. Stroud, Glos. 1995)

RIC

    The Roman Imperial Coinage, edd. H. Mattingly et al. (London, 1926–)

ROL

    Remains of Old Latin, ed. E. H. Warmington (Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge MA and London, 1935–46)

SIG3

    Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum, 3rd edn, ed. W. Dittenberger (Leipzig, 1915–24)

ZPE

    Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik