Epistula Marci Antonii triumviri ad Plarasenses et Aphrodisienses ( Riccobono )

EPISTULA MARCI ANTONII TRIUMVIRI AD PLARASENSES ET APHRODISIENSES

Letter of Antony on Aphrodisio-Plarasan privileges

( 39-35 BC )

( S. Riccobono, Fontes iuris Romani antejustiniani, I, Firenze, 1941, pp. 269-272, n. 38 ).

~ Translated from the Greek by Th. Mommsen ~

[M. Antonius M. f. imperator, cos. design]atus iterum et [tertium], trium virum rei publicae constituendae, Plarasensium et Aphrodisiensium magistratibus ordini populo salutem.

Si valetis bene est ; valeo equidem cum exercitu. Solo Demetrii f. legatus vester, qui diligentissime res publicas vestras curavit, non solum factas constitutiones comprobavit, sed etiam nos hortatus est, ut decreti vobis redditi et senatus consulti et iuris iurandi et legis expressa e tabulis publicis vobis mitteremus exempla ; ideo laudatus Solo acceptior mihi factus est eumque in notis mihi habui, eidemque beneficia quae par erat tribui, dignum iudicans virum qui a nobis honoraretur. Vobis autem, gratulor, quod talem habetis civem. Sunt autem exempla beneficiorum vobis tributorum infrascripta : quae vos in tabulas vestras publicas referre volo.

Greek text ( J. Reynolds, Aphrodisias and Rome, n. 6 ).

English translation ( Inscriptions of Aphrodisias Project ).

[? Imperator Caesar, son of divus Iulius, designated consul] for the second and [the third] time, (one) of the Tresviri Reipublicae Constituendae, to the Magistrates, Council and People of the Plarasans and Aphrodisians, greetings.

If you are well it would be good ; I too am in good health, together with the army. Solon, son of Demetrios, your ambassador, who has taken the greatest care over the business of your city, has not only been satisfied by the administrative arrangements that have been made but has also urged us to send you from the public records these copies of the edict, the senatus consultum, the treaty and the law that relate to you. For this I praised him, approved him the more, held him as one of my acquaintances and gave him the appropriate privileges, thinking him deserving of honour from us ; and I congratulate you on the possession of such a citizen. The copies of the privileges that relate to you are these that are subjoined ; I wish you to register them among your public records.

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► Source : Tall narrow block discovered at Aphrodisias, Turkey, in 1705.