Imperator
Caesar, son of divine Julius, to the Magistrates, Council and People
of the Ephesians, greetings : If you are well, it would be well ;
I myself am in good health, together with the army. Solon, son of Demetrios,
ambassador of the Plarasans and Aphrodisians has reported to me how
much their city suffered in the war against Labienus and how much property
, both public and private, was looted. About this I have given a commission
to my colleague Antonius, that as much as he can find ; he should
restore to them and I decided to write to you, since you have a city
well-placed to help them if they lay claim to any slave or other piece
of private property. I was also informed that out of the loot a golden
Eros, which had been dedicated by my father to Aphrodite, has been brought
to you and set up as an offering to Artemis. You will do well and worthily
of yourselve if you restore the offering which my father gave to Aphrodite.
In any case Eros is not a suitable offering for Artemis. For concerning
the Aphrodisians, upon whom I have conferred such benefits, I should
take the care about which I think you too have heard. |
► Bibliography
Pleket
& Stroud, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, XXXII, Amsterdam,
1982, n. 1097 ; Reynolds, Aphrodisias and Rome, London,
1982, n. 12 ; BE 1983, 373 ; AE, 1984, n. 866 ; Pleket & Stroud, Supplementum Epigraphicum
Graecum, XXXIV, Amsterdam, 1984, n. 1044.
► Source : Column discovered at Aphrodisias, Turkey.
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