LETTER OF AUGUSTUS TO SARDIS
  
CONCERNING THE ELECTION OF GAIUS TO THE CONSULSHIP
   
5-1 BC )
 

 
R. K. Sherk, Rome and the Greek East to the death of Augustus, Cambridge, 1984, p. 134, n. 104 B
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      Imperator Caesar, son of the God, Augustus, pontifex maximus, holding the tribunician power for the 19th time 5BC | to the Sardian magistrates, Boule (and) People, greetings. Your envoys, Iollas (son) of Metrodoros and | Menogenes (son) of Isidoros (grandson) of Menogenes met with me in Rome and || gave me the decree from you by means of which you disclosed what had been decreed by you concerning yourselves and rejoiced with me at the trans|ition to manhood of the elder of my sons. I praise your zeal | in showing your gratitude to me and all my (family) for the benefits given (to you) by me. Farewell.