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33. Verse honours for Eupeithius

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Description

  • Monument: A rectangular white marble statue base with panels within moulded edges on three sides (0.97 × 0.485 × 0.38).
  • Text: Inscribed on the central panel.
  • Letters: 0.03-0.045; 12; ligature in I. 4; sigma lunate in 1. 1, otherwise rectangular.
  • Date: Mid to late fourth century (lettering).

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     τὸν σοφὸν ἥδε | πόλις Εὐπείθιον | εἵνεκα πάντων |
     στήσατο λαϊνέην | (5) εἰκόνα δειμαμένη leaf |
     μνωομένη μετὰ | πότμον ὅτ' ἀνδρά|σιν αἶνος ἀληθὴς leaf |
     τίνεται ἀνδρομέ|(10)ης ἔκτοθι βασκα|νίης leaf

Translation

This city had made and set up a stone image (of) the wise Eupeithius because of everything, recalling that it is after death that true praise, beyond human envy, is accorded to men.

Photographs

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Commentary

See discussion at III.38.

Locations

  • Found: Hadrianic baths: at the west side of trench A, in the room north of the tepidarium.
  • Original: Unknown.
  • Last Recorded: Museum.

History

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