Epistula C. Livii consulis et SC ad Delphos ( Dittenberger )

EPISTULA C. LIVII CONSULIS ET SC. AD DELPHOS

Letter of C. Livius Salinator to Delphi and decree of the Senate

on Delphian envoys and on resident aliens at Delphi

( 189-188 BC )

( W. Dittenberger et al., Sylloge inscriptionum graecarum, 3rd ed., Leipzig, 1915-24, n. 611 ).

[Γάιος Λίβιος Μαάρκου στ]ρατηγὸς ὕπ[ατ]ος Ῥ[ω]μ[αίων καὶ δή]-|[μ]αρχοι καὶ [ἡ σύγκλ]ητος Δελφῶν τοῖς ἄρ[χο]υσι καὶ τῆι πό[λει χαίρειν]· | οἱ παρ’ ὑμῶν ἀποσταλέντες πρεσβευταὶ Ἧρυς Εὐδώρου, [Δ]αμο[σθέ]-|νης Ἀρχέλα τά τε γράμματα ἀπέδοσαν καὶ αὐτοὶ διελέγησαν ἀκολούθως | τοῖς ἐν αὐτοῖς κατακεχωρ[ισ]μένοις μετὰ πάσης σπουδῆς, φιλοτιμίας οὐ-|θὲν ἐλλείποντες, ἐνεφάνιζον δὲ καὶ δ[ι]ότι τόν τε ἀγῶνα τὸγ γυμνικὸν | καὶ τὴν θυσίαν ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν συνετελέσατε· καὶ ἡ σύγκλητος τὴν διάνοιαν | προσέσχεν τε καὶ ἔδοξεν αὐτοῖς ὑπέρ τε τῶμ πρότερον πρεσβευτῶν | Βούλωνος, Θρασυκλέος, Ὀρέστα, τῶμ πρὸς ἡμᾶς μὲν ἀφικομένων, ἐν δὲ | τῆι εἰς οἶκον ἀνακομιδῆι διαφωνησάντων, γράψαι πρὸς Μάαρκον Φολούιον | τὸν ἡμέτερον στρατηγόν, ἵνα φροντίσηι ὅπως, ὅταν καθ’ ἡμᾶς γένηται | τὰ κατὰ τὴν Σάμην πράγματα, ἀναζητήσηι τοὺς ἀδικήσαντας καὶ φρον-|τίσηι, ἵνα τύχωσιν τῆς καθηκούσης τιμωρίας, καὶ τὰ τῶν πρεσβευτῶν | ὑπάρχοντα ἀποκατασταθῆι πάντα τοῖς οἰκείοις αὐτῶν· ἔδοξεν δὲ καὶ | πρὸς Αἰτωλοὺς γράψαι περὶ τῶν γινομένων παρ’ ὑμῖν ἀδικημάτων, ἵνα | νῦμ μὲν τὰ ἀπηγμένα ἅπαντα ἀναζητήσωσιν καὶ ἀποκαταστήσω-|σιν ὑμῖν, τοῦ δὲ λοιποῦ μηθὲν ἔτι γίνηται· καὶ περὶ τῶν ἐν Δελφοῖς κα-|τοικεόντων ἔχειν ὑμᾶς ἐξουσίαν ἐφῆκεν ἡ σύγκλητος, ἐξοικίζειν | [ο]ὓς ἂμ βούλησθε καὶ ἐᾶν κατοικεῖν παρ’ ὑμᾶς τοὺς εὐαρεστοῦντας τῶι | [κ]οινῶι τῶν Δελφῶν· τὰς δὲ δοθείσας ἀποκρίσεις τοῖς ἔμπροσθεν πρὸς | [ἡ]μᾶς ἀφικομένοις παρ’ ὑμῶν πρεσβευταῖς ἀνεδώκαμεν αὐτοῖς καθὼς | [ἠ]ξιοῦν ἡμᾶς, καὶ εἰς τὸ λοιπὸν δὲ πειρασόμεθα ἀεί τινος ἀγαθοῦ | [παρ]αίτιοι τοῖς Δελφοῖς γίνεσθαι διά τε τὸν θεὸν καὶ δι’ ὑμᾶς διὰ τὸ | πάτριον ἡμῖν εἶναι τοὺς θεοὺς σέβεσθαί τε καί τιμᾶν τοὺς ὄντας πάν-|των αἰτίους τῶν ἀγαθῶν.

► Bibliography

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► Source : Block of gray limestone found at Delphi, part of an statue of Manius Acilius Glabrio.