Honours for Adrastos
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source date: 50-75 CE
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[...] τῆς πρὸς τὸν δῆμον φιλοτειμίας εὐνοίᾳ τῇ πρὸς τὰ κοινὰ κεχρημένος ἐν πᾶσιν τειμῆς ἄξια πάντα παρεσχημένος ἐκτενῶς ἀνθ' ὧν ὁ δῆμος ἔδωκεν αὐτῷ καὶ ἐψηφίσατο ἐνταφὴν καὶ κηδείαν ἐν τῇ πόλει ἐν τοῖς ἄντικρυς τοῦ βουλευτηρίου δημοσίοις ἐργαστηρίοις ἀμειβόμενοι αὐτοῦ τὴν εὐνοίαν καθὼς τὸ ψήφισμα περιέχει τὰδε νῦν ἀγομένης βουλῆς προελθὼν Ἄδραστος καὶ ὑπάρχων καὶ ἐν τούτῳ φιλόπατρις καὶ μὴ βουλόμενος τῆς πόλεως πρόσοδον μειοῦσθαι αἱρούμενος δὲ τὸ τῆς πόλεως ὠφέλιμον ἠξίωσεν μετατεθῆναι τὸν τόπον τῆς ἐνταφῆς ἐν τοῖς ἰδίοις ἐργαστηρίοις αὑτοῦ δεδόχθαι τῇ βουλῇ καὶ τῷ δήμῳ τηρουμένου τοῦ πρώτου τῆς ἐνταφῆς ψηφίσματος καθὼς ἐκυρώθη ἐπιτετράφθαι αὐτῷ ἐν τοῖς [...] ἐργαστηριοις κατασκευάσαι τὸ ἡρῶον

[...] because of his generosity to the People, behaving with goodwill for the common interest in all things, having continuously provided everything that was deserving of honour. In return for which the People gave and decreed for him burial and funerary rites in the city, in the public ergasteria opposite the Council-chamber, returning his goodwill as stated in the decree. Now, when the Council was discussing these matters, Adrastos came forward, being on this occasion too concerned for his native city and, unwilling that the income of the city should be reduced, but preferring what was helpful for the city, thought it proper that the place of the tomb should be relocated in ?his own ergasteria; it was decided by the Council and the People that, while the original decree of a tomb should stand, he should be allowed to prepare the Heroon in his own ergasteria.

[^1]: Wherefore the people gave and voted to him burial and a funeral in the city in the public factories (ergasteria) opposite the council-house (bouleuterion), repaying him for his goodwill as the resolution declares; but now, when the council was in session, Adrastos came forward and, being a lover of his ancestral city in this too, and not wishing the revenues of the city to be diminished, but desiring the benefit of the city, he requested that the place of his burial be changed to . . . factories; it was resolved by the council and the people that the first resolution concerning his burial be observed, according to which it was it resolved that he be entrusted with building the tomb (heroon) in the ... factories

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[...] in 1981 Museum 57.

[...] 120-126 , whence [...] 46.1393 , [...] 1999.477 , [...] 2000.314; [...] 597-600, whence [...] 50.1097 ; [...] 11.16.