26 Dr. Kennepy Barwie’s Researches amongst the inscribed Monuments 
vius, pictured to themselves in the Lydian, namely, a Gerusia. What this was 
in Sardes we have the explicit information which that author has bequeathed 
to us, but nothing had been stated with respect to the Gerusia of Teos, in the 
Vitruvian sense of the term, that is, a House of Assembly for the Seniors 
(yépovres) of the state in Council.* 
We learn, a few lines further on, that the distinguished citizen whose name 
had been recited in the commencement, had borne the office of @vAGE evOnvias, 
which in other tituli that I have seen is at one time expressed emapyos, at 
another éemimeAntys, evOnvias, and corresponded doubtless to the Prefectus 
annone amongst the Romans. 
The duties of this office consisted in alleviating as much as possible the 
suffermgs of the poorer classes during seasons of dearth, by gratuitous distributions 
of corn, as well as of other necessaries of life, and were undertaken occasionally 
by magistrates of the very highest rank. Thus we are informed by Suetonius 
and Dio that Augustus himself thought it not beneath him to take upon himself 
the discharge of the duties of this benevolent office. Tacitus also has referred 
to this in his peculiar style, when presenting us with the outline of the Augustan 
* See my first Memoir referred to above, from vol. xix. Trans. R. I. A., p- 131. 
The passage of Vitruvius there mentioned is as follows: ‘“ Croesi domus, quam Sardiani civibus 
ad requiescendum ztatis otio, seniorum collegio Gerusiam dedicaverunt.” 
These words seem to imply, that the Gerusia of Sardes served the double purpose of an Asylum, 
in our sense of the term, or yegoyroxousiov, and a House of Assembly. 
It certainly appears from tituli that there existed in Sardes, as in other cities of Asia Minor, a 
Collegium Seniorum, which, assembled in council, had a voice in the affairs of the city. Vid. Reinesii 
Syntagma Inscriptt. Ci. vii. Tit. 86, and compare Dion. Chrysostom. Orat. xxxiv. pp. 418, s. 
[ am particular in mentioning this, lest the passage in my former Memoir should be misunder- 
stood. 
{ The titles abovementioned are fully illustrated by Chandler, Znscr. Antig. n. 187, p. 81. 
Inscr. Rosett. y. 13. Tit. Vatican. Ixi. 12, s. in Osanni Syllog. p. 429. Zoég. Numm. Aegypt. and 
Algemeine Schulzeitung for 1828. 
Dio Cassius terms this officer émimednths Tov cirov, in Hist. Rom. liv. 1. 
fF Octay. August. c. xli. fin. The expressions of Suetonius strongly illustrate vv. 7, ss. of the 
inscription now under consideration : « Frumentum quoque in annone difficultatibus szepe levissimo, 
interdum nullo pretio, viritim admensus est.” See Dio in the passage referred to in the preceding 
note. 
