E. On the Date of IG V.1.1432/33

IG V.1.1432/33 was originally dated to the 30s and 40s A.D. by G. Kolbe in the corpus, then brought up first to 39 B.C. by Wilamowitz, and finally as early as the end of the second century B.C. by A. Wilhelm.^[41] A. Giovannini now returns to Kolbe's date (refined to A.D. 35-44) and is followed by, among others, L. and J. Robert and C. Habicht.^[42] It is disquieting that the legatus Augusti P. Memmius Regulus, with whom

is identified by Kolbe and Giovannini, is otherwise always called in the numerous Greek inscriptions by his proper title , but a date earlier than the late first century B.C. seems highly improbable in view especially of the existence of Roman residents in Messene (revealed in the list of contributions, no. 1433) and the calculations in a Greek document in denarii.^[43]