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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 4787811, member: 84744&quot;]Thanks for the further info, Al!&nbsp; A classic book, for sure - I did a bit more digging and this does sound like a very plausible cutoff.&nbsp; (I definitely felt the need to dig more, though, as Stevenson is apparently not 100% accurate:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1163859[/ATTACH]</p><p>This seems rather unlikely as he wasn&#039;t even governor of Pannonia Superior yet, never mind emperor!)</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s some corroboration from <a href="https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/pater-patriae-e909650" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/pater-patriae-e909650" rel="nofollow">Brill&#039;s New Pauly</a>, which is a good scholarly source.&nbsp; I can&#039;t access the whole entry though.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then I had some fun with EAGLE, the Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (search <a href="https://www.eagle-network.eu/resources/search-inscriptions/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.eagle-network.eu/resources/search-inscriptions/" rel="nofollow">here</a> or <a href="http://www.edr-edr.it/edr_programmi/res_complex_comune.php?lang=en&amp;ver=simp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.edr-edr.it/edr_programmi/res_complex_comune.php?lang=en&amp;ver=simp" rel="nofollow">here</a>).&nbsp; The latest record I found for &quot;Pater Patriae&quot; fully written out rather than inferred from &quot;PP&quot; is for <a href="http://www.edr-edr.it/edr_programmi/res_complex_comune.php?do=book&amp;id_nr=EDR151438" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.edr-edr.it/edr_programmi/res_complex_comune.php?do=book&amp;id_nr=EDR151438" rel="nofollow">Valentinian I in Sardinia</a>:</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p>M(ilia) p(assuum) [---].</p><p>D(omino) n(ostro) Valentiniano Aug(usto),</p><p>trib(uniciae) potestatis, pater</p><p>patriae, viam quae a</p><p>5 [Karalibus ducit Olb(iam)]</p><p>vetustate corruptam</p><p>restituit,</p><p>curante Fl(avio) Maximino</p><p>[pro]curatore suo.</p><p><br /></p></blockquote><p>Obviously that&#039;s getting pretty close to Theo.&nbsp; I wonder if Theo was the last to be Pater Patriae since he was the last to head a unified empire.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t seem to make sense for the Patria to have two Paters...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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