EPISTULA ANTONINI PII AD MINOETAS
   
Letter of Antoninus Pius to the Minoans
  
( AD 138-161 )
 

    
J. Delamarre, Inscriptiones Graecae, XII, 7, Berlin, 1908, n. 242 ).
 

 
[– – – – – – – – – – Μεινοητῶν τῇ βου]-|λῇ καὶ [τῷ δήμῳ χαίρειν. – – – – – – – – –] | πολλῶν [– – – – – – – τὴν  ὑμετέραν  πό]-|λιν· καὶ γὰρ α– – – – – – – – – – – – – – | ων ἐπιφανῶ[ς – – – – – – πρὸς τὸν Ῥω]-|μαίων δῆμον – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – | δὲ τῆς πρὸς τὸν – – – – – – – – – – – – – – | εὐνοίας, μάλιστα [δὲ πρὸς τὸν πατέρα(?) Ἁδριανὸν] | θεὸν Σεβα<σ>τὸν, ὃς – – – – – – – – – – – – | διατρείψας παρ’ ὑμε[ῖν πολλῶν – – – ἀγαθῶν] | καὶ φιλανθρώπων ε– – – – – – – – – – – – | τα· ὅθεν καὶ τῷ ψηφίσ[ματι   τῷ   ὑμετέρῳ   ἐνέ]-|τυχον   ἡδέως,   καὶ   το[ῖς   παρ’   ὑμῶν  πρεσβευταῖς]  |  Θεοπόμπῳ Ἀνόκνο[υ – – – – – – – – –] | στράτῳ ἐχρημάτισα· [διὰ ταῦτα οὖν ὑμῖν ἐλευ]-|θερίαν καὶ αὐτονομί[αν καὶ ἀτέλειαν(?), καθὼς] | παρὰ τῶν πρόσθεν α[ὐτοκρατόρων ἐλάβε]-|τε, ἐβεβαίωσα. ΕΤ– – – – – –
 

 
►  Bibliography
 
 
Delamarre, Inscriptiones Graecae, XII, 7, Berlin, 1908, n. 242 ; Abbott & Johnson, Municipal Administration in the Roman Empire, Princeton, 1926, p. 428, n. 108 ; Cagnat, Inscriptiones Graecae ad res Romanas pertinentes, IV, París, 1927, n. 1010 ; Oliver, Greek Constitutions of Early Roman Emperors from Inscriptions and Papyri, Philadelphia, 1989, n. 107.
 
 
►  Source : Inscription discovered at Minoa on Amorgos Island, Greece.