CORN DOLE ARCHIVE

(2899, cf. 2900; 2918). However another person described as anepikritos without official scrutiny was admitted to this category (2908 iii). One application (2907 ii) from a liturgist whose name had been mistakenly omitted from the list uses the formula for enrolment in the place of a dead man, which is seen elsewhere only in the cases of epikrithentes those who have passed scrutiny. The name of the dead man was omitted and a space left for it was never filled, so that there is a strong probability that the formula was completely inappropriate here.

Freedmen were also admitted, but only, it seems, those who had performed a liturgy. The phrase apeleutherōn leleitourgēkōtōn freedmen who have performed liturgy unfortunately occurs only in the genitive; it is a less likely possibility that it means 'freedmen of those who have performed a liturgy'. Together the liturgists and the freedmen formed a group called the rhemboi sundries, which I have translated by 'sundries'.

The ideal number of the rhemboi appears to have been nine hundred. This comes from a much damaged application (2908 iii), but it does seem clear that the petitioner asks for his foster-brother to be enrolled 'among the nine hundred'—en tois (ennakosiois)—and the official subscription at the foot of the sheet runs: paredexamen en [te taxei] tōn rhembon—'I admitted (him) in the category of the sundries.' One actual list of numbers of rhemboi from the various quarters of the city counts only six hundred and thirty five (2928 i). But another figure implies that in May/June, A.D. 270, there were about 750 of them, see 2929 18 n.

It seems to follow from the absence of the "in place of X who has died" formula, except in the case mentioned above where the name was never added, that the lot did not apply to the rhemboi. Probably a share in the dole was offered as an inducement to attract prospective liturgists or to console those appointed against their will. In respect of exemption from the lot the whole class of the rhemboi is parallel to the freedmen at Rome (sch. Persius v 73). There the numbers were probably kept within manageable bounds by the residence requirement and by the legal restrictions on the granting of full citizenship by manumission (A. M. Duff, Freedmen, pp. 72 seqq.). Freedmen of the inferior Latin status, called Latini Juniani freedmen with limited rights, could acquire full citizenship by various types of public service, specified in Gaius, Inst. i §§ 32b—34. It may be that the classification of the apeleutheroi leleitourgēkōtes was derived from this Roman model.

(c) homologoi those liable for poll-tax

Not included among the epikrithentes or the rhemboi were the homologoi, who formed the third and last category according to the terminology of the documents. Their ideal number was only one hundred and on one occasion the actual number was ninety-three (2928 ii). They are more fully described in a formulary as homologoi apographentes kai apo graphes aphēlikōn prosbantes those liable for poll-tax registered and promoted from the list of minors (2927 4). This means that they were admittedly liable for poll-tax and that they were of age to be promoted from the list of minors. I supposed at first that these were young boys who were qualified by birth and age but who had not yet undergone their epicrisis. However when one applicant who probably fell in this class made his application in 1 Claudius II (A.D. 268/9), he set his promotion from the list of minors in 1 Decius and Herennius (A.D. 249/50),