The starting point for the second regular sequence – the clerical posts – is the grade of adiutor. ‘Adiutor’ is basically a generic term meaning ‘assistant’, and is used for a wide variety of posts in the civil and military administration. It is always further defined, sometimes by a noun in the genitive (e.g. tabulariorum, praefecti, principis, procuratoris, etc.), sometimes by the name of an administrative or domestic office (e.g. a rationibus, a cognitionibus, ab admissione, a vinis, a lagona, etc.). The problem is to sort these out according to rank in the administrative hierarchy. But before we can make any progress we must examine critically the seniority and regular status of the adiutores procuratoris because of their disturbing effect on the status of the rest.

The examples are as follows:

1. (1) VI 8470 = d 1535; cf. 143 = d 3896 a: Carpus Aug. lib. Pallantianus, adiutor Claudi Athenodori praef(ecti) annonae. (Nero.)

2. (2) III 431 = 7116 = 13674 = d 1449 (Ephesus): Hermes Aug. lib., adiut(or) eius (sc. [Valerii Eudaemonis]…proc. heredit(atium) et proc. pro[vin]ciae Asiae, proc. Syriae). (Pflaum, CP No. 110, pp. 264–71; late Hadrian.)

3. (3) CIG 11 1813b = LBW 11 1076 = d 8849 (Nicopolis, Epirus): Μνησὴρ Σεβαστοῦ ἀπελ[εύθε]ρος, βοηθὸς αὐτοῦ (sc. A. Ofellii Maioris Macedonis, proc. prov. Epiri, proc. prov. Ponti et Bithyniae, a voluptatibus). (Pflaum, CP No. 112, pp. 272–4; Hadrian.)

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