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A Note on Diogmitae

While being transported as a condemned criminal to Rome, Ignatius bishop of Antioch writes to the Christian community in the capital: "From Syria to Rome I am fighting with beasts, being bound on land and sea, by night and day, to ten leopards, that is, a unit of soliders" (ano Xvpiaq 'Pco|ir| , 8ia yrjq teal 0aXaaaT|<;, vokto<; Kal Tijiepaq, 8e8£|i.evo<; 8eKa XeoTiapSou;, o e<mv oxpaxvcoTiKov xdyp.a).1 In a recent note Barry Baldwin has argued that these "leopards" "will almost certainly have been the so-called diogmitae, a tough crowd of vigilantes or enforcers, hardly deserving LSJ's mild description of them as 'mounted policemen'." Baldwin proceeds to discuss some Greek and Latin attestations of this word, and especially the Historia Augusta's Marcus 21.7, armauit et diogmitas. "This account . . . may be authentic, given the undoubted existence of diogmitae at that time. Yet one has to wonder what the chances are of the Historia Augusta independently coming up with the only extant Latin use of the term outside Ammianus" [27. 9. 6]. Baldwin suggests that "we have here yet another small link in the chain of details that betrays the fraudulent nature of the Historia Augusta."2 The classic discussion of the diogmitae is by W. H. Waddington, commenting on an inscription copied by Philippe Le Bas on the territory of Aezanoi in Phrygia; some refinements were added by Wilhelm Dittenberger in his edition of the same text. These scholars established that the diogmitae were a form of police, light-armed and operating on foot, attached to municipal officers such as the eirenarches and the paraphylax? In 1928 Louis Robert discussed some inscriptions from the borderland of Pisidia and Pamphylia which showed diogmitae acting in pairs or accompanying