EPISTULA HADRIANI ASTYPALAEENSIBUS
   
Letter of Hadrian to Astypalaea in answer to an embassy
  
( AD 118 )
 
    
( F. Hiller von Gaertringen, Inscriptiones Graecae, XII, 3, Berlin, 1898, n. 176 ).
 
 
Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ θεοῦ Τραϊανοῦ Παρθικ[οῦ] | υἱός, θεοῦ Νέρουα υἱωνός, Τραϊανὸς Ἁδριανὸς | Σεβαστός, ἀρχιερεὺς μέγιστος, δημαρχικῆς | ἐ[ξ]ουσίας, ὕπατος τὸ βʹ, Ἀστυπαλαιέων | ἄρχουσι καὶ τῇ βουλῇ καὶ τῷ δήμῳ χαίρειν. | ἐντυχὼν ὑμῶν τῷ ψηφίσματι ὅτι μὲν ἀπο-|ρεῖν φατε καὶ οὐ δύνασθαι τελεῖν τὸ ἐπαγγελ-|τικον ἀργύριον ἐμάνθανον· οὐ μὴν ὁπό-|σον τε τοῦτο οὐδὲ ε[ἴ] ποτε φέρειν αὐτὸ ἤρ[ξ]ασ-|[θε – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –] | – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
 

 
►  Bibliography
 
 
Dittenberger, Sylloge inscriptionum graecarum, 2nd ed., Leipzig, 1898-1901, n. 385 ; Hiller von Gaertringen, Inscriptiones Graecae, XII, 3, Berlin, 1898, n. 176 ; Lafoscade, De Epistulis Imperatorum Magistratuumque Romanorum, Paris, 1902, n. 19 ; Dittenberger et al., Sylloge inscriptionum Graecarum, 3rd ed., Leipzig, 1915-24, n. 832 ; Abbott & Johnson, Municipal Administration in the Roman Empire, Princeton, 1926, p. 397, n. 76 ; Cagnat, Inscriptiones Graecae ad res Romanas pertinentes, IV, París, 1927, n. 1032 c ; Smallwood, Documents Illustrating the Principates of Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian, Cambridge, 1966, n. 449 b ; Martin, La documentacion griega de la cancilleria del emperador Adriano, Pamplona, 1982, n. 7 ; Oliver, Greek Constitutions of Early Roman Emperors from Inscriptions and Papyri, Philadelphia, 1989, n. 65.
 
 
►  Source : Inscription found on Astypalaea in the Aegean Sea.