the inscription on the base of a statue erected in kourion on cyprus provides information on the first part of his "cursus honorum". honoratus served as "legatus" to two different proconsular governors: the governor of sicilia, and the governor of bithynia and pontus; the inscription does not mention his election to praetor, which terence mitford dates to the year 97, but completion of that office was a prerequisite to one that is mentioned, "prefectus frumenti dandi", the prefect responsible for the distribution of rome’s free grain dole.