Decree of honours for Kallikrates son of Diogenes,pancratiast
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[...]ιτο[...][...][...] [...] ι ἔδοξεν τῇ ἱερᾷ ξυστικῇ περιπολιστικῇ εὐσεβεῖ σεβαστῇ συνόδῳ καὶ τῷ σύνπαντι ξυστῷ τῶν περὶ τὸν Ἡρακλέα καὶ αὐτοκράτορα Καίσαρα Τραιανὸν Ἁδριανὸν Σεβαστὸν διαπέμψασθαι τόδε τὸ ψήφισμα τῇ ἱερωτάτῃ Ἀφροδεισιέων βουλῇ καὶ τῷ δήμῳ ἐπεὶ Καλλικράτης Διογένους Ἀφροδεισιεὺς πανκρατιαστὴς ἱερονείκης πλειστονείκης ἀπὸ πρώτης ἡλικίας εἰς τὰς ὁδοὺς τῆς ἀρετῆς τραπεὶς ἱδρῶσι καὶ πόνοις ἐκτήσατο τὴν εὐκλεῆ δόξαν [...]τητός τε παρὰ πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις καθ' ὅλης τῆς οἰκουμένης γείνεται διά τε τὴν ὁλόκληρον αὐτῷ πεφιλοπονημένην σοφίαν σωματι γὰρ ὑπερβάλων ἅπαντας ἀρχαίους ἐθαυμάσθη τὴν φύσιν ψυχῆς τε ἐπιμελούμενος ἐμακαρίζετο τὸν τρόπον ὧν ἕνεκα ἁπάντων πρὸς τὸ ὑπερβάλλον τῆς δόξης ἑρπύσας ὁ βάσκανος φθόνος τὸ κοινὸν ἡμῶν ἀγαθὸν νεμεσήσας ἀπήνενκεν ἐνειρείσας εἰς μέρη τοῦ σώματος τὰ εὐχρηστότατα πανκρατιασταῖς τοὺς ὤμους διὸ ἔδοξεν τύχῃ τῇ ἀγαθῇ αἰτήσασθαι τὴν Ἀφροδεισιέων πόλιν τόπους ἐπιτηδείους ὅπως ποιησώμεθα τοῦ μεγάλου ἱερονείκου εἰκόνων ἀναθέσεις καὶ ἀνδρειάντος ἀνάστασιν καθὰ καὶ ἐν τῇ μητροπόλει τῆς Ἀσίας Ἐφέσῳ ἐχουσῶν τῶν τειμῶν ἐπιγραφὰς τὰς προσηκούσας τῷ Καλλικράτει, ἵνα διὰ τούτου τοῦ ψηφίσματος τὸ βαρύθυμον πρὸς εἱμαρμένην ἀπαραίτητον αἱ τῶν τειμῶν χάριτες εὐπαρηγόρητον ἡμεῖν τὸν συναθλητὴν καταστήσωσιν

[^a1: at 1: . . . ?ἐτείμεσεν] το[ύτῳ τῷ [Not reported by Loew]]

[^a2: at 4: Τ.[Αἴλιον Ἁδρι- | τ[ὸν Διόνυσον | τ[ὸν Ἡρακλέα]

[^a3: at 9-10: [περιο/[δ]ονείκης [corrected by Robert]]

[^a4: at 12-13: [ἐπιζή]τητος | [εὐαρεσ]τητός]

[^a5: at 14: ΔΙΑΔΕ | διὰ | διά [τ]ε]

[^a6: at 14: ὁλόκλ[ηρον] | ὁλοκλ[ήρως]]

[^a7: at 16: Υ/ΜΕΡΒΑΛΛΟΝ | ὑ/περβάλλων]

[^a8: at 30: ΤΟΝΑΡΥΘΥΜΟΝ | τὸ(ν) ἀρ(ι)θμὸν | τὸν ἄρυθμον | . . ]ΡΥΘΥΜΟΝK | τὸ βαρύθυμον]

- ] It was resolved by the sacred xystic travelling reverent august synod and the whole xystus under [Herakles] and the emperor Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, to send this decree to the most sacred Council and the People of the Aphrodisians. Since Kallikrates, son of Diogenes, from Aphrodisias, pancratiast, sacred victor, [multiple] (10) victor, who from his earliest youth having turned to the ways of virtue, obtained by sweat and labour his noble reputation, and came to be [?admired] by all men throughout the inhabited world for the complete wisdom which he obtained by his labours; for, having excelled all the ancients in his physique, he was admired [for his physique], and, taking care of his soul, he was congratulated on his conduct. On account of all these things malign (20) Envy crept towards his outstanding reputation and, begrudging our common good, removed it, bearing down on the part of the body most useful to pancratiasts, the shoulders. For this reason it was resolved, with good fortune, to request the city of the Aphrodisians for suitable locations, so that we might make offerings of images of the great sacred victor and put up a statue, as (we have done) also in the metropolis of Asia, Ephesos, the honorific images having inscriptions appropriate to Kallikrates, (30) in order that through this decree, in his heaviness of heart at an inexorable destiny, the gracious gift of the honours may make our fellow-athlete well consoled.

[...]; [...] R.I.43, Abklatsch 55 (lines 14-33, right end); [...]; [...]; [...]

[...] b.4 , whence [...] 1620 , [...] 13 ; [...] 417 , revised by [...], 134-47, [...], whence [...] 1974.535; [...] 11; [...] 89 , whence [...] PPAphr 89 [...] H.258 (listed); [...] 12.719.