RESCRIPT OF ANTONINUS PIUS ON GAMES
   
( AD 139  )
 
 
( Johnson, Coleman-Norton & Bourne, Ancient Roman Statutes, Austin, 1961, p. 209, n. 253 ).
 
 
   Antoninus Pius, the emperor, answers the petition of the people of Smyrna in Asia Minor for a copy of Hadrian's constitution, which perhaps concerned the institution of games at Smyrna. The marble pillar reported in 1676 from Smyrna, but now destroyed, exhibited the very mutilated petition written in Greek, the reply in Latin, and the record of the transcript in Greek and in Latin. Only the rescript and the record are translated.
 
 
ENGLISH TRANSLATION.
 
 
   Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrian Antoninus Augustus Pius to Sextilius Acutianus.
   The decision of my deified father, if he pronounced anything as a decision, I permit you to copy.
   I have written in reply. I have certified it. The nineteenth.
   Done April 8 in Rome, in the second consulship of Caesar Antoninus and Praesens.
   Witnessed in Rome, May 5, in the second consulship of Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrian Antoninus and Gaius Bruttius Praesens. There were present Titus Flavius Macrinus Simonas, Lucius Atanius Flavius Demosthenianus, Lucius Aelius Hermogenes Aelianus, Marcus Antonius Crispus, Lucius Licinnius Albinianus, Marcus Cosconius Caricus, Tiberius Claudius Actius.
   Stasimus, Dapenius, issue according to form the decision or the constitution.