<rs type="textType">Posthumous <rs type="textType">honours</rs></rs> for Diogenes son of Menandros

J. M. Reynolds2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

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Description of Text

No description.

Letters

Ornate apices on Φ, Χ, Ρ shown by Boeckh, presumably from Rochette, but not shown by Deering.

Date

First to second centuries A.D. (content)

Edition 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
Apparatus

l. 1, ΕΤΕΙΜΙΣΑΝ Rochette ΕΤΕΙΜΗΣΑΝ Deering

l. 2, ΜΕΤΙΛΛΑΧΟΤΑ, ΜΕΓΙΣΤΑΤΕ Rochette, ΜΕΤΗΛΛΑΧΟΤΑ, ΜΕΓΙΣΤΑΙΣ Deering

ll. 3-4, ΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΥ Rochette, ΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΥ Deering

l. 4, ΔΙΟΓΕΝΟΥΓ Rochette, ΔΙΟΓΕΝΟΥΣ Deering

l. 7, ΚΑΠΕΡΕΥΣΑΝΤΑ Rochette

l. 9, ΕΣΣΤΙΑΣΣΙΝ Rochette, ΕΣΤΙΑΣΕΙΝ Deering

l. 10, ΦΙΛΩΔΟΞΟΣ, ΕΣΕΒΟΣ Rochette

Translation

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 [...]

Commentary

See Reynolds, 'Imperial Cult', 78, 'Further Information', 109, 'Ruler-cult', 44.

Locations

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Text Constituted From

Deering notebook; publication.

History of Recording

Recorded by Raoul Rochette; by Deering (4v, no.17).

Bibliography

Published by Boeckh, from Raoul-Rochette, CIG 2778, whence Liermann 63-65, no. 11; SEG 30, 1244, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 270 . Lines 5/6 discussed by L. Robert, AntClass 1966, 418 n.1.

Representations

Deering notebook, page 4v