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Inscr. 1-3 Arabia: 1) Syria VI (1925), 230-1 = AE 1926, 148 = SEG VII 256 Tafas; 2-3) Wadd. 2034-5 Mothana.

Full name Inscr. 1; Fl. Hierocles 2-3; Hierocles elsewhere.

Native of Cilicia Lib. Ep. 30.

BARRISTERiRole name: BARRISTER Lib. Ep. 371, 379, 466 (see below).

GOVERNOR OF ARABIAiRole name: GOVERNOR OF ARABIA a. 343/4: ἄρχοντος τῆς ἐπαρχίας Φλ. Ἀντ. Ἱεροκλέους τοῦ διὰ παντὸς καθωσιωμένου Inscr. 1 (dated a. 340/50); 343 March 22/344 March 21 Inscr. 3 (era of Bostra yr. 238); Inscr. 2 undated; 344 Dec. 9 CTh XI 36.7 (MSS ad Hieroclen cons. Syriae Coeles; the consular date seems to be sound, and the office may therefore be wrongly inserted from CTh X 1.6).

CONSVLARIS SYRIAEiRole name: CONSVLARIS SYRIAE a. 348 April 24 CTh X 1.6 ad Hieroclem cons. Syriae Coel(es), cf. Lib. Ep. 466 (cited below).

He inherited a small fortune, made money at the bar, and spent it when in office Lib. Ep. 466 σὺ πατρῴων μὲν πάνυ μικρῶν ἐκληρονόμησας χρημάτων, ἃ δὲ δίκας λέγων εἰργάσω, δικάζων ἀνήλωκας, καί σοι σύνεστιν ἀντὶ χρυσίου δόξα: at one time he taught as professoriRole name: professor of rhetoric Lib. Ep. 517. In 355/6 he was living in retirement on his estates, and he died 358/9 Lib. Ep. 26, 33, 341.

He was uncle of Alypius 4 Lib.-Bas. Ep. 4 and of Chromatius who married his daughter Lib. Ep. 390; brother of Demetrius 2 Lib. Ep. 30, 33, 341 and Iulianus 14 Lib. Ep. 40; and father of Calycius Lib. Ep. 346, 379, 380, 568. See stemma 15.

He also received Lib. Ep. 394 and is mentioned in Ep. 395 and 593.