Letter of Severus and Caracalla to Aphrodisias
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source date: Inscription: second to third centuries C.E. Document: A.D. 198 .
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Αὐτοκράτορες Σεουῆρος καὶ Ἀντωνεῖνος Ἀφροδεισιέων τοῖς ἄρχουσι καὶ τῇ βουλῇ καὶ τῷ δήμῳ χαίρειν ἡσθέντας ὑμᾶς ἐπὶ τῷ τοὺς θρασυνομένους βαρβάρους νενεικῆσθαι καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν οἰκουμένην ἐν εἰρήνῃ γεγενῆσθαι σφόδρα ἔπρεπεν εὐφρανθῆναι τῆς πατρῴας κοινωνίας εἰς ἐμὲ Ἀντωνεῖνον ἡκούσης ὄντας καλοὺς κἀγαθοὺς ἄνδρας καὶ τῇ Ῥωμαίων ἀρχῇ μᾶλλον ἄλλων προσήκοντας διὰ τὴν προκαθημένην τῆς πόλεως ὑμῶν θεόν τὴν ὑπάρχουσαν ὑμεῖν πολειτείαν καὶ τοὺς ἐπ’ αὐτῇ νόμους τοὺς μέχρι τῆς ἡμετέρας ἀρχῆς ἀκεινήτους μεμενηκότας φυλάττομεν εὐτυχεῖτε

The Emperors Severus and Antoninus to the [Magistrates) and the [Council and People] of the Aphrodisians, greetings.

It was most appropriate that you, who rejoiced at the conquest of the insolent barbarians and [?the establishment of peace in] all [?the inhabited world], celebrated the coming of joint rule shared with my father to me, Antoninus, [.. ? .. for you are ? good and noble men and] more closely related than others to the empire of the Romans because of [the goddess] who presides over your city. Your existing polity and its laws which have survived unchanged up to our reign [we preserve. ?Farewell].

[...] 67.310 , 67.454, 69.310, 69.458, 69.459, 69.463, 69.469

[...] 18 whence [...] 1983.379 , [...] 1984.872, [...] 55 ; [...] 8.37.