Honours for Teimokles, son of Apollonios
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source date: First century CE
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ἡ γερουσία καὶ ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτείμησαν ταῖς καλλίσταις καὶ μεγίσταις τειμαῖς Τειμοκλέα Ἀπολλωνίου τοῦ Ὑψικλέους ἄνδρα σοφὸν καλὸν καὶ ἀγαθὸν γένους πρώτου καὶ ἐνδοξοτάτου γυμνασιαρχήσαντα καὶ στεφανηφορήσαντα μεγαλοψύχως καὶ φιλοδόξως καὶ ἀρχιερατεύσαντα τοῦ Ἀυτοκράτόρος καὶ ἀγωνοθετήσαντα καὶ δὶς ἑστιάσαντα τὸν δῆμὸν καὶ πάντα ποιήσαντα μεγαλομερῶς λαμπρότατα καὶ πολυτελεστατα ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων ἀξίως καὶ ἀναλογούντως τῇ πατρίδι καὶ τῷ γένει

[^a1: at 8: καὶ γ]ένει | καὶ τῷ γ]ένει]

The gerousia and the council and the people honoured with the fairest and greatest honours Timokles, son of Apollonios, grandson of Hypsikles, a prudent man, good and virtuous man, belonging to one of the foremost and most distinguished families, who served as gymnasiarchos and stephanephoros with magnanimity and generosity, who served as a high priest of the emperor, and as agonothetes, who offered a banquet to the people, and who did everything in a generous, most brilliant and most sumptuous manner, spending his own funds, in a manner worthy and fitting to his fatherland and his kin.

The Gerousia and the Council and the People honoured with the finest and greatest honours Timokles son of Apollonios the son of Hypsikles, a wise man, fine and good, of a leading family of highest repute, who was a generous and beneficent gymnasiarch and stephanephorus, a high priest of the Emperor, a president of games, twice feasted the people, and did all with magnificence, splendour and lavishness from his own funds in a manner worthy and appropriate to the fatherland and his family

[...] a: 64.117. b: 75.198, c: 1982, no number

[...] H.142 (listed); [...] 21.