Rescriptum de schola epicurea Atheniensi ( Miller )

RESCRIPTUM HADRIANI DE SCHOLA EPICUREA ATHENIENSI

Rescript of Hadrian on the Epicurean School at Athens

( AD 121 )

( M. C. J. Miller, Inscriptiones Atticae : Supplementum..., VI, Chicago, 1992, n. 57 ).

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Letter from Plotina to Hadrian

[_ _ _ M. Annio Vero II, Cn. A]rrio Augure co[(n)s(ibus) _ _ _] | a Plotina Augusta. | [quod studium meum] erga sectam Epicuri sit, optime scis, d[omi]ne. huius successioni a te succurendum | [est. nunc quia n]on licet nisi ex civibus Romanis adsumi diad[o]chum, in angustum redigitur eligendi | [facultas. rogo er]go nomine Popilli Theotimi, qui est modo diado[c]hus Athenis, ut illi permittatur a te et Graece | [t]estari circa hanc partem iudiciorum suorum quae ad diadoches ordinationem pertinet et peregrei-|nae condicionis posse sub[s]tituere sibi successorum, s[i i]ta suaserit profectus personae; et quod Theotimo | concesseris, ut eodem iure et deinceps utantur futuri diadochi sectae Epicuri, eo magis quod opservatur, | quotiens erratum est a testatore circa electionem [di]adochi, ut communi consilio substituatur a studio-|sis eiusdem sec[t]ae qui optimus erit: quod facilius fiet, si e[x] compluribus eligatur. |

Rescript of Hadrian

[I]mp(erator) Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Aug(ustus) Popillio Theotimo: permitto Graece testari de eis quae pertinent ad diado-|chen sectae Epicureae. set cum et facilius successorem e[l]ecturus sit, si ex peregrinis quoque substituendi facul-|tatem abuerit, hoc etiam praesto e<t> deinceps ceteris [qui] diadochen habuerint: licebit vel im pe<re>greinum vel | in civem Romanum ius hoc transferri. |

Letter from Plotina to the school at Athens

Πλωτεῖνα Σεβαστὴ πᾶσι τοῖς φίλοις χαίρειν. [ἔ]χομεν οὗ τυχεῖν ἐσπεύδομεν· συνκεχώ-|ρηται γὰρ τῶι διαδόχωι, ὃς ἂν μέλληι τῆς Ἐπικούρου διαδοχῆς ἀφηγεῖσθαι τῆς οὔσης ἐν | Ἀθήναις, καὶ πᾶν τὸ πρὸς τὴν διαδοχὴν ἀν[ῆ]κον οἰκονόμημα Ἑλληνικῆι διαθήκηι δι-|ατάσσεσθαι καὶ αἱρεῖσθαι εἴτε Ἕλληνα εἴτε Ῥωμαῖον βούλοιτο τὸν προστατήσοντα τῆς | διαδοχῆς. καλῆς οὖν τῆς ἐξουσίας προσγ[εγ]ενημένης ἧς ἀξίαν χάριν ὀφείλομεν εἰδέ-|ναι τῶι ὡς ἀληθῶς εὐεργέτηι καὶ πάσης π[α]ιδείας κοσμητῆι ὄντι καὶ κατὰ τοῦτο σε[βα]σμιω-|τάτωι αὐτοκράτορι, ἐμοὶ δὲ προσφιλεστάτω[ι] κατὰ πάντα καὶ ὡς διαφέροντι κυρίωι καὶ ὡ[ς ἀ]γαθῶι | τέκνωι, κατάλληλον ὑπάρχει ἕκαστον τῶν πεπιστευμένων τὴν κρίσιν τῆς προστατείας τὸν ἄ-|ριστον αἰεὶ ἐκ τῶν ὁμοδόξων πειρᾶσθαι ἀντικαθιστάνειν εἰς τὸν ἑαυτοῦ τόπον καὶ πλεῖον | νέμειν τῆι τῶν ὅλων ὄψει ἢ τῆι ἰδίαι [πρ]ός τινας συνηθεί[αι]. ἐμοὶ μὲν οὖν ἤρεσκε μηδὲ [ἀγα]π[ᾶν τι]-|νας μάλλον τῶν διαφέρειν δοξάντων κατὰ τὴν δύναμιν τῶν λό[γ]ω[ν τ]ῶν [ἡμ]ετέρων καὶ κατὰ | τὸ ἀκόλουθον ἐν τῆι κατὰ τὴν διάθεσ[ιν τ]ῶν [ἠθ]ῶν ὑπεροχῇ. εἰ δ’ ἄρα τοῦτο μὴ γείνοιτο, οὐ παρὰ | τὴν ἰδίαν τοῦ πράγματος φύσιν, ἀλλὰ παρὰ τὴν ἡμῶν αὐτῶν ἀσθένειαν ἢ διά τινα ἄλλην τυχικὴν | ἐμπόδισιν, τό γε τὸν ὑπὲρ τοῦ κοινοῦ θρησκεύματος βουλευόμενον καθήκειν οἴομαι [σ]το-|χάζεσθαι τοῦ ἀρέσοντος [κοιν]ῆι πᾶσιν καὶ μὴ τοῦ ἰδίαι ἑαυτῶι. μὰ τὸν Δία δὲ οὐδὲ νομίζω | τὸν ἀντιλαβόμενον [τῆς] ὠφελίας τῆς ἐκ τῶν λόγων περιγεγενημένης αὐτῶι καὶ χά-|[ριν ἔχ]οντα τῶι τοιο[ύτωι συ]ναισθήματι αὐτοῦ παρὰ τὸ ἐπιλογισμῶι χρῆσθαι τῶι μὴ ἐάσον-|[τι αὐτὸν] παρεξεν[εγκεῖν τ]ὸ μέγεθος τῆς δωρεᾶς μὴ οὐχὶ οὕτως διατεθήσεσθαι ὥστε καὶ | _ _ _ τὸ τοῦ σεμνώματος τήρημα τοῦ τόπου ἐκείνου, ὃς περιέχει τὰ | _ _ _ καὶ τὴν γνώμην δὲ τὴν ὑπὲρ τῆς καθηγεμονίας τοῦ σωτῆρος ητ̣! | [_ _ _ πρώτου(?)] κυρίου καθεσταμένου τῆς σχολῆς ὄντων κατ’ ἐκεῖνον [τὸν καιρὸν(?) !!] | [_ _ _ Ἐπικ]ούρωι κατὰ τἆλλα ἰδιώματα οὐ κατὰ τὴν ὑπεροχὴ[ν _ _ _] | _ _ _μένου ἐτέρων τε πλειόνων κ_ _ _ | _ _ _

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► Source : Marble stele discovered in Athens, Greece, in 1890.