In this article, we analyze some epithets of Lucius Licinius Lucullus, a famous Roman, in Greek inscriptions, where he is mentioned as the lower magistrate/promagistrate (quaestor or proquaestor), and also as an imperium bearer. Lucullus's epithets are compared with epithets of other Romans in epigraphic monuments of the 1st century BC. The author tries to find out the context that determined the choice of laudatory nouns for tributes of honor. Our analysis helps to define the preferred reconstruction option of the lost epithet in the Ephesus inscription with the name of Lucullus and mentioning his post as ?????????? (proquaestor), namely - ??????.
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