Posthumous honours for Diogenes son of Menandros
created: Deering notebook; publication.
source date: First to second centuries CE
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ἡ βουλὴ καῖ ὁ δῆμος ἐτείμησαν καὶ μετηλλαχοτα ταῖς μεγίσταις καὶ καλλίσταις τείμαις Διογένην Μενάνδρου τοῦ Διογένους ἱερέα γενόμενον Θεᾶς Ἀφροδείτης καὶ Θεῶν Σεβαστῶν ἀμεριμνίας γυμνασιαρχήσαντα καὶ στεφανηφορήσαντα καὶ ἱερεύσαντα τῶν Σεβαστῶν ὑπερβαλλούσαις φιλοδοξίαις καὶ πανδήμοις ἑστιάσεσιν καὶ τὰς ἀρχὰς τελέσαντα φιλοδόξως καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ εὐσεβῶς [...]

[^a1: at 1: ΕΤΕΙΜΙΣΑΝ | ΕΤΕΙΜΗΣΑΝ]

[^a2: at 2: ΜΕΤΙΛΛΑΧΟΤΑ, ΜΕΓΙΣΤΑΤΕ | ΜΕΤΗΛΛΑΧΟΤΑ, ΜΕΓΙΣΤΑΙΣ]

[^a3: at 3-4: ΜΕΝΑ/ΝΔΡΟΥ | ΜΕΝΑΝ/ΔΡΟΥ]

[^a4: at 4: ΔΙΟΓΕΝΟΥΓ | ΔΙΟΓΕΝΟΥΣ]

[^a5: at 9: ΕΣΣΤΙΑΣΣΙΝ | ΕΣΤΙΑΣΕΙΝ]

The Council and the People honoured, even after his death, with the greatest and most splendid honours Diogenes son of Menandros the son of Diogenes. he had been priest of the goddess Aphrodite and of the Securitas of the gods, the Augusti; he (acted as) gymnasiarch, stephanephorus and priest of the Augusti with outstanding ambition and feasts for the whole people, and carried out the magistracies ambitiously, and the rest with piety [...]

[...] ; [...] (4v, no.17).

[...] from Raoul-Rochette 2778, whence [...] 11, [...] 270 , [...] 418, note 1 (discussion of lines 5-6), [...] 78 (discussion), whence [...] 30.1244; [...] 15.261.