CIL VI, 1783,16-17: plerique meministis (e considerazioni sparse sull’impiego di plerique)

The pressing problem is if Theodosius I really went to Rome after the Frigidus. CIL VI, 1783 is an epigraphical statement about a Theodosian speech as soon as Nicomachus Flavianus senior was dead, that is after the battle. Scholars have different ideas: one is that Theodosius I really went to Rome, the second is that in the inscription the reference is at a senatorial delegation in Milan. My suggestion starts from the deliberation that Nicomachus Flavianus junior was the redactor of the letter in CIL VI, 1783; the HA, if it was not written by Nicomachus Flavianus junior, may be is the product of similar circles. Here, I consider some literary uses of plerique, in particular in the HA. I add also some notices on oratio (principis) in the HA, and my proposal is that Theodosian words in the tradition were not from him directely, but from an oratio principis, according to a widespread routine in Late Antiquity.