15.360. The Carians honour Palmatos, in verse
- Description:
- No description.
- Text:
- No description.
- Letters:
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- Date:
- Late fifth/early sixth century (prosopography).
- Findspot:
- Unknown.
- Original Location:
- Unknown.
- Last recorded location:
- Unknown.
- History of discovery:
- An epigram either recorded, almost certainly at Aphrodisias, by a Byzantine copyist, or intended for inscription at Aphrodisias; not reported subsequently.
- Bibliography:
- Published in the Planudean Anthology (book 16 of the Palatine Anthology) 35, whence Robert, Hellenica 4, 14, Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 63, Steinepigramme 02/09/11.
- Text constituted from:
- Published text. This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1μνήμονες οἱ Κᾶρες πολλέων εὐεργεσιάων v.
- 2Παλμᾶτον ἰθυδίκην τόσσον ἀγασσάμενοι.
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μνήμονες
οἱ
Κᾶρες
πολλέων
εὐεργεσιάων
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Παλμᾶτον
ἰθυδίκην
τόσσον
ἀγασσάμενοι
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Apparatus
l.2. Although editors have regularly printed the conjecture Παλμᾶν, Alan Cameron showed that the original reading, Παλμᾶτον, was to be preferred; see Porphyrius the Charioteer, (Oxford 1973), 194.
Translation:
The Carians, remembering many benefits, and greatly admiring the rightly just Palmatos, (set up this statue).
Commentary:
See also 8.410 and discussion at ala2004 V.33.
- Photographs:
- none.
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