Honours for C. Julius Longianos, poet
created: Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché); MAMA squeeze; Publications
source date: iii: 127 A.D.
language: en; grc
availability: Creative Commons licence Attribution 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). You may redistribute and reuse this content, including creation of derivative works and commercial content, but you must acknowledge the original authors. All reuse or distribution of this and derived works must link back to the URL http://insaph.kcl.ac.uk/

[...] [...] οσαπα [...] διὰ τὰς ἀκρόασεις [...] α τε τῆς [...]ιτουσ [...]αν εἰσφερ[...] ι ἐν πλειστοις [...]αστουσ [...]δενοσ [...] πολλάκις [...] τήν τε αὐτ[...] προσηκου[...]λησθαι [...] Γάιον Ἰούλιον Λονγιανὸν [...]ν καὶ κατα [...]ον καὶ τῶν [...]τλω καὶ δε [...] πολειτείαν [...]δα καὶ χει [...]ναι δὲ αὐτ[...] πόλεως [...]μασεφησ [...]ροσ δὲ το [...] Ἁλικαρνασσέων πολ[...] οσ αὐτὸν [...] ἀντίγραφον [...] σημανθὲν τῇ δημοσίᾳ σφραγεῖδι

[...] τῇ ἄλλῃ ἐπιδημίᾳ καὶ ἐτείμησεν καὶ ἐκόσμησεν ἡμᾶς καὶ ποιημάτων παντοδαπῶν ἐπιδείξεις ποικίλας ἐποιήσατο δι' ὧν καὶ τοὺς πρεσβυτέρους εὔφρανεν καὶ τοὺς νεωτέρους ὠφέλησεν ἐπί τε τούτοις ἅπασιν ἡσθεὶς ὁ δῆμος τειμὰς αὐτῷ προσέταξε τὰς προσηκούσας ψηφίσασθαι δεδόχθαι Γάιον Ἰούλιον Λογγιανὸν προῖκα πεπολειτεῦσθαι παρ' ἡμεῖν ὄντα καὶ ἄνδρα ἀγαθὸν καὶ ποιητὴν τὸν ἄριστον τῶν καθ' ἡμᾶς ταῖς τε ἄλλαις πολειτείαις καὶ τειμαῖς τετειμῆσθαι ταῖς ἐκ τῶν νόμων μεγίσταις καὶ εἰκόσιν χαλκαῖς ἃς ἔν τε τοῖς ἄλλοις ἀνασταθῆναι τοῖς ἐπισημοτάτοις τῆς πόλεως χωρίοις καὶ ἐν τῷ τῶν Μουσῶν τεμένει καὶ ἐν τῷ γυμνασίῳ τῶν ἐφήβων παρὰ τὸν παλαιὸν Ἡρόδοτον ἐψηφίσθαι δὲ καὶ τοῖς βυβλί15 οις αὐτοῦ δημοσίαν ἀνάθεσιν ἔν τε βυβλιοθήκαις ταῖς παρ' ἡμεῖν ἵνα καὶ ἐν τούτοις οἱ νέοι παιδεύωνται τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον ὃν καὶ ἐν τοῖς τῶν παλαίων συνγράμμασιν ὅπως δὲ καὶ τῷ δήμῳ τῶν συνγενῶν Ἀφροδεισιέων φανερὰ γένηται ἡ ἡμετέρα περὶ τὸν πολείτην αὐτῶν εὔνοια καὶ σπουδή δεδόχθαι καὶ ἀντίγραφον τοῦδε τοῦ ψηφίσματος πεμφθῆναι διὰ αὐτοῦ τοῦ Ἰουλίου τοῖς Ἀφροδεισιεῦσιν τῇ δημοσίᾳ σφραγεῖδι σημανθὲν ἐξ οὗ κἀκεινοι μαθήσονται τό τε ἡμέτερον ἦθος ᾧ περὶ πάντας ὁμοίως τοὺς πεπαιδευμένοις χρώμενοι διατελοῦμεν καὶ αἷς τὸν ἄνδρα τειμαῖς ὡς διενηνοχότα τῶν ἄλλων τετειμήκαμεν

ψήφισμα ἱερᾶς συνόδου ἔδοξεν τῇ ἱερᾷ συνόδῳ τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς οἰκουμένης περὶ τὸν Διόνυσον καὶ Τραιανὸν αὐτοκράτορα Καίσαρος θεοῦ Τραιανοῦ Δακικοῦ Παρθικοῦ υἱὸν θεοῦ Νέρουα υἱωνὸν Ἁδριανὸν Καίσαρα Σεβαστὸν νέον Διόνυσον τεχνειτῶν ἱερονεικῶν στεφανειτῶν καὶ τῶν συναγωνιστῶν εἰσηγησαμένου Θεοφράστου τοῦ Εὐβιότου Τρύφωνος κωμῳδοῦ Λαοδικέως ἐπιψηφισαμένου Εὐτύχους τοῦ Εὐτύχους κωμῳδοῦ Ἀσιονείκου Ἱεραπολείτου ἐπεὶ Γάιος Ἰούλιος υἱὸς Λογγιανὸς ἀγαθὸς ἀτελὴς τραγῳδίων ποιήτης ἀνὴρ πὰντος λόγου καῖ πάσης [...]σιαν οὐ μόνον κοσμῶν ἀλλὰ καὶ συναύξων διὰ τῆς ἐναρέτου παιδείας [...] μεγαλοφυεῖ δόξῃ λογιότητα, τὴν ἀδιάλειπτον εὔνοιάν τε καὶ σπουδὴν εν [...]υται ὡς πληθύειν ἡμῶν τὴν σύνοδον καὶ συναύξειν δι' ὃ ἀθρόον τὸ τῆς ειο [...]ται καὶ προτροπὴν τῶν μελλόντων ἐτείμησεν αὐτὸν εἰκόνι γραπτῇ [...] ἐν ᾧ ἂν τόπῳ τῆς πατρίδος αὐτὸς προέληται, εἶναί τε προήγορον διὰ βίου τῆς συνόδου [...]οχητῆς ἀξίας ἄνδρας ταῖς πρεπούσαις τειμαῖς ἀμείβεσθαι ἐτελέσθη ἐπὶ ὑπάτων Μάρκου Γαουίου Σκουίλλα Γαλλικανοῦ καὶ Τίτου Ἀτειλίου Ῥούφου Τιτιανοῦ πρὸ Ϛ καλανδῶν Ἀπρειλίων [...] Θεοφράστου τοῦ Εὐβιότου Τρύφωνος τοῦ καλουμένου Θεοφράστου Ὠρείωνος Λαοδικέως κωμῳδοῦ [...]ς καὶ γυμνασιάρχου γραμματεύοντος δὲ Αἰλίου Κλαυδίου Διογένους [...]ντοσ Ἀπελλα Χάρητος Ἀφροδεισιέως κιθαρῳδου [...] ου

[^a1: at i 15: · ]ΟΗ | ]ΩΝ]

[^a2: at i 17: ΔΕΙΜΕΙΑΝ | π]ολιτείαν]

[^a3: at i 19: ]ΑΙ | ]ΝΑΙ]

[^a4: at ii 1: ΤΗΤΕ | ΤΗ [While the second letter is uncertain, there are not more than two.]]

[^a5: at ii 7: ΗΜΕΙΝ | ΗΜΙΝ]

[^a6: at ii 12: ΜΟΥ | ΜΟ[Υ]]

[^a7: at ii 14: ΒΥΒΛ | ΒΥΒΛΙ]

[^a8: at ii 15: ΚΑΙΣ | ΚΑΙ[Σ]]

[^a9: at ii 17: ΣΥΝ | ΣΥ[Ν]]

[^a10: at ii 18: ΣΥΝΓ | ΣΥΓΓ]

[^a11: at ii 19: ΠΟΛΕΙ | ΠΟΛΕ[Ι]]

[^a12: at iii 3: ΤΕΧΝ[Ι] | ΤΕΧΝΕ[Ι]]

[^a13: at iii 4: ΤΗΝ | ΤΩΝ | ΕΥΦΟΡΟΥ | ΕΥΒΙΟΤΟΥ]

[^a14: at iii 5: ]ΣΤΥΧ | ]ΥΤΥΧ | ]ΤΥΧ | ]ΥΤΥΧ | ΚΩΜΩΙΔ | ΚΩΜΩΔ]

[^a15: at iii 7: ΣΙΑΝ | ΞΙΑΝ [no decisive traces - - ΕΙΑΝ is also possible.]]

[^a16: at iii 8: ΛΛΟΦ | ΑΛΟΦ | at end, ΕΙΣ | ΕΝ [very unclear, even on the squeeze.]]

[^a17: at iii 9: ΤΑΙ | ΑΙ | ΥΤΑΙ | ΑΘΡΟΟΝ | ΑΙΙΟΟΝ | At end ΤΗΣΠΕ | ΤΗΣΣ[ΥΝ] | ΤΗΣΕΙΟ]

[^a18: at iii 11: ΟΠΩ | ΠΡΟΣΔΕΠΑ .. Σ ..... ΗΓΟ | ΠΡΟΣΘΗ ... ΝΕΙΝΑΙ ... ΝΗΓΟΡ | at end ΛΙΣ | ΤΗΣ [the MAMA reading seems closest to what can be determined]]

[^a19: at iii 12: ΡΧΗ | ΟΧΗ | ΑΣΙΑΣ | ΑΞΙΑΣ | at end ΟΜ | ΘΗ]

[^a20: at iii 13: ΑΠΕΙ | ΑΤΕΙ | Υ ... ΓΚΑΛ | ΠΡΟ]ςΚΑΛ | ΠΡΟςΚΑΛ | ΛΙΩΝ | ΛΙΩ[Ν]]

[^a21: at iii 14: ΩΝ ... ΛΛΟ | ΩΝΟΣΛΑΟ | ΚΩΜ .. | ΚΩΜΩ]

[^a22: at iii 15: At beginning Ε | Σ]

[^1]: Summary: A decree in honour of Longianos (line 13) with a reference to public readings of his poetry (line 2) and to a copy of a decree in his honour sealed with a public seal (lines 25-6); perhaps the last is that mentioned in ii, which was almost certainly a decree of the people of Halicarnassus, in which case their name should perhaps be restored here (line 23). This might perhaps have been a covering document which accompanied ii; but the lack of alignment between the two texts suggests to me that they were probably not inscribed at the same time, and were therefore not so closely associated.

[^1: i]

[^2]: [The Council and people ?of Halicarnassus honoured C. Julius Longianos since he had benefited them ...] and by the rest of his visit, and he also honoured and adorned us, and gave demonstrations of poems of every kind, by which he both delighted the older and improved the younger, and, pleased at all this, the People instructed that the appropriate honours be voted to him; it has been resolved that Gaius Julius Longianus function as a citizen among us without payment, being both a good man, and the best poet of our times, and be honoured with the other grants of citizenship and honours, the greatest that the laws permit, and with bronze statues which are to be put up both in the most notable places of the city and in the precinct of the Muses and in the gymnasium of the ephebes next to the ancient Herodotus; it has also been voted that there should be public presentation of his books in the libraries in our city, so that the young men may be educated in these also, in the same way as in the writings of the ancients; and, so that our goodwill and enthusiasm for their citizen should become clear to the People of our kinsfolk, the Aphrodisians, it has been resolved that a copy of this decree should be sent, by the hand of Julius himself, to the Aphrodisians, signed with the public seal, from which they too will learn both the way in which we regularly behave towards all educated men, and the honours with which we have honoured (Longianus) as someone quite outstanding.

[^2: ii]

[^3]: Decree of the sacred synod. [It was resolved by the sacred worldwide synod], under Dionysos and the emperor Traianus, [son] of the divine Caesar [Traianus Dacicus Parthicus], grandson of the [divine] Nerva, Hadrianus Caesar Augustus, new Dionysos, of performers [?crowned and sacred victors] and the associate-competitors; (resolution) introduced by Theophrastos Tryphon, son of Eubiotos, [comedian, of Laodicea, seconded by] Eutyches son of Eutyches, comedian, Asian victor, of Hierapolis. [Since Gaius Julius, ? son of Gaius, Longi]anos, a good and ?unrivalled tragic poet, a man [?worthy of] all regard and all [? - - ] not only adorning but also enhancing through his virtuous learning [?our association, - - ? his ] eloquence [?adorned with the] reputation of his natural genius, his unceasing goodwill and zeal [ - - ] so as to increase and enhance our synod, by which altogether [ - - ] and as an encouragement for future generations, honoured him with a painted likeness [ - to be put up in whatever] place in his homeland he himself may choose, and to be advocate, for his lifetime, of the [synod - ? e.g. since it is our wish] to reward men with the fitting honours; it was carried out [in the consulate of Marcus Gavius Squilla G]allicanus and Titus Atilius Rufus Titianus, six days before the calends of April; [?the president was Theophrastos] Tryphon [son of Eubiotos] also called Theophrastos Orion, of Laodicea, comedian; [ - - ] and gymnasiarch; the secretary was Aelius Claudius Diogenes [...the ...] was Apelles son of Chares, Aphrodisian, [...] End.

[^3: iii]

[...] (using a ladder); [...] 96; [...] (copied, squeezed and measured); [...], using binoculars.

[...] 1618 (i and ii), 1619 (iii) ; [...] 10 (mention); [...] 418 , whence [...] 173-4, [...] H.122 (listed); [...] 88 , whence [...] PPAphr 88; [...] 12.27.