Letter of Gordian III to Epaphras
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source date: 238-244 C.E.
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αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Μᾶρκος Ἀντώνιος Γορδιανὸς Εὐσεβὴς Εὐτυχὴς Σεβαστὸς Αὐρηλίῳ Ἐπαφρᾷ χαίρειν εἴ τι περὶ τῶν τῆς πατρίδος σου νόμων τῇ τε ἱερωτάτῃ συνκλήτῳ βουλῇ ἔδοξε καὶ τοῖς ἐν θεοῖς τῶν Αὐτοκρατόρων τοῦτο κἀμοὶ πρέποι ἂν ἐπὶ τῶν αὐτῶν φυλάττειν ὅρων τῇ πατρίδι τῇ σῇ εἰ τοίνυν προσιών τις τῷ φίλῳ μου καὶ ἐπάρχῳ τῆς πατρίδος τῆς ἐμῆς Φλαβίῳ Λατρωνιανῷ ὑπὲρ ὧν ἐνέγραψας διδάσκοις τὸ ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἔθος ἀναπέμψαι προνοήσεται τὴν περὶ τοῦ Πολυδώρου κρίσιν τῷ οἰκείῳ δικαστηρίῳ ἔρρωσο

[^a1: at 3: χαίρε | χαίρε[ιν]]

[^a2: at 5: σuνγκλήτῳ | συνκλήτῳ]

Imperator Caesar M. A[ntonius] Gordianus, Pius, Felix, Au[gustus], to Aurelius Epaphras, greetings.

Any decision about the laws of your native city that has been made by the reverend council of the Senate and those of the emperors who have been deified it would be proper for me too to preserve for your native city on the same terms. If, therefore, you/someone were to go to my friend Flavius Latronianus, who is prefect of my own native city, about the matters on which you wrote, and would explain to him the original tradition, he will arrange to remit the decision in the matter of Polydoros to the proper court. Farewell

[...] 66.608

[...] 56-58 , whence [...] 1969.599 , [...] 1970.536 , [...] ; [...] 22 whence [...] 32.1097 , [...] 1983.383 , [...] 1984.876 , [...] 57 ; [...] 8.100.