Decree of honours for Dionysios son of Papylos
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source date: First to second centuries CE
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ψήφισμα ἐπεὶ Διονύσιος Παπύλου τοῦ Παπύλου ὁ ἱερεὺς τοῦ Νινευδίου Διὸς ἀνὴρ πατρὸς καὶ προγόνων ὑπάρχων καλῶν καὶ ἀγαθῶν καὶ ἐν ἀρχαῖς καὶ φιλοδοξίαις γεγονότων καὶ αὐτὸς ἀπὸ πρώτης ἡλικίας βίον σεμνὸν καὶ ἐνάρετον ἑλόμενος ἱερατείαν τε τῶν Σεβαστῶν καὶ ἀγωνοθεσίαν καὶ πρεσβείας καὶ ἐφηβαρχίαν καὶ στρατηγίαν καὶ γραμματήαν καὶ τὰς λοιπὰς πάσας ἀρχὰς σεμνῶς καὶ εὐσεβῶς καὶ νομίμως καὶ δικαίως τελέσας καὶ ζῶν βίον πάσῃ καλοκαγαθίᾳ κοσμούμενον καθὼς διὰ πλείστων ἤδη ψηφισμάτων μεμαρτύρηται αὐτῷ τὰ νῦν ἐπικληθεὶς ὑπὸ τοῦ δήμου καὶ αἱρεθεὶς ἀρχινεοποιὸς κεχειροτόνηται ἐφ' οἷς ὁ δῆμος ἀποδεχόμενος τὴν ἐν πᾶσιν τοῦ ἀνδρὸς φιλόπολιν σπουδὴν ἀγομένων ἀρχαιρεσιῶν ὁμοθυμαδὸν ἐπηνέχθη πάλιν τειμῆσαι αὐτὸν [...]

Decree. Since Dionysios son of Papylos the son of Papylos, the priest of Nineudios Zeus, a man whose father and ancestors were of the noble and good, and among those who held magistracies and sought honour, he himself also, from his first youth chose a lifestyle of dignity and virtue,fulfilling the priesthood of the Augusti and the presidency at contests and embassies and office as ephebarch and general and secretary of the People and all the other magistracies in a manner deserving of respect and with piety and according to the law and justice and living a life adorned with all nobility and goodness as very many decrees have already testified; now he has been called upon by the People and elected chief temple-warden. In these circumstances the People, understanding the man's zeal for the city in all things, after the elections, was led to honour him again with one accord [ . . .

[...] 80; [...]; [...]

[...] 8 , whence discussed A. Wilhelm, Beiträge 315; [...] 410 , whence [...] 33 ; [...] 12.612.