Triumviral decree
created: transcription (Reynolds)
source date: Inscription: Second to third centuries C.E. Document, 39/38 BCE
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Γάϊος Καῖσαρ Σεβαστὸς αὐτοκράτωρ, Μᾶρκος Ἀντώνιος αὐτοκράτωρ τριῶν ἀνδρῶν τῆς τῶν δημοσίων πραγμάτων διατάξεως λέγουσιν ἐπειδὴ καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἔμπροσθεν χρόνοις ἀεὶ διετέλουν περὶ τῆς τοῦ δήμου τοῦ Ῥωμαίων ἡγεμονίας πλείστην σπουδὴν εἰσφερόμενοι καὶ μάλιστα τοῖς ἡμετέροις μέρεσιν προσγενόμενοι [...] Ῥόδιοι Λύκιοι Ταρσεῖς τε καὶ Λαοδικεῖς ἔτι δὲ Πλαρασεῖς καὶ Ἀφροδεισιεῖς ἀθεμίτως μεταβασι[...] ὑπέρ τε τῶν δημοσίων καὶ ἡμῶν ἐπὶ τῆς καλλίστης γενόμενοι γνώμης πάντα κίνδυνον ἀνεδέχοντο δι’ ὅπερ [...] ουπαιανοσ παντὶ τρόπῳ καὶ σπουδῇ βοήθηαν πλείστην ὀφείλομεν παρέχειν [...] τηι [...] καθιστᾶν μετὰ πλείστης προθυμίας ἐπιθυμοῦμεν ὅπως μὴ μόνον ὑπὲρ ὧν προσεδέοντο [...] χρημάτων τῶν ἀπολωλότων ἀλλὰ καὶ ὑπὲρ τῶν προγεγονότων φιλανθρώπων τὰς ὀφειλομένας χάριτας ἀνταποδίδωμεν [...] καλῶς ἔχον ἐστὶν μὴ πρὸς Ῥόδιον Λύκιον Λαοδικῆ Πλαρασῆ καὶ Ἀφροδεισιῆ Ταρσῆ ἐλεύθερον [...] ἐξουσίαν γεγονότων ἤδη ποτὲ ου αἱρέσει τῶν ἀπὸ ἐκείνου τοῦ χρόνου τοῦ μετὰ Μᾶρκον λ[...] ἐπιγεγονότας ἐφ’ ἥν ποτε πόλιν πολεμίοις στρατοπέδῳ ἐπῆλθον ὃς ἂν τούτων μὴ ποήσῃ ἐκ[...] [...] [...]μων ἐπενηνοχέναι καὶ ὃς ἂν τούτου κατηγορήσῃ [...] [...]ων δώσομεν

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[^1: The translation assumes some of the controversial restorations proposed.]

[Caius Caesar] Augustus, imperator, [Marcus Antonius, imperator, triumviri] Reipublicae Constituendae, announce:

[? Since in former times too the Rhodians, Lykians, Ta]rsians and Laodikeians, and also the Plarasans and Aphrodisians, [always] showed the greatest zeal [for the] empire [of the Roman People] and [being] especially [attached] to our party [.. ? ..] they [have been] unlawfully [.. ? .. ? when], holding the most noble principles, [? they undertook] every risk on behalf of the respublica and ourselves; [for which reason .. ? ..] we ought to provide the most abundant aid in every way and with all zeal [.. ? .. ? for the sake of Apollo] Paean (Medicus), we desire, with the greatest eagerness, [? to restore them] in order that [? we may pay the debt of gratitude] due not only for those things which [.. ? .. being things] destroyed, but also for their former good services [to us .. ? .. it is] proper that [no one shall have] the power [to .. ? ..] against a Rhodian, Lykian, Plarasan and Aphrodisian, Tarsian [.. ? ..] a freeborn person in respect of [.. ? ..] which have occurred already in the past [.. ? ..] from the time when Marcus [.. ? .. those who ? assaulted] each city which they attacked ? with hostile armies. Whoever fails to observe ? any of these injunctions [.. ? ..] ? to have brought a charge [.. ? ..] and to whomsoever informs against him we will give [.. ? ..].

[...], a in 1967; in 1975 b, c 75.187 and d 75.141

[...] 9 (description, a only); [...] 7 , whence [...] 1983.369 , [...] 1984.861 , [...] 74 ; [...] 8.26.