Proxeny decree for the poet Demokrates, son of Philokles, of Athens.
Statue base of Pentelic marble.
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Boiotia — Oropos (Skala) — Amphiareion — after mid. 3rd c. BC — ArchEph (1952) 188, 16 — SEG 15.274
| 1 | [Μ]ενεκράτης Ἀθηνάδου εἶπεν· ἐπειδὴ |
| Δημοκράτης ὁ ποητὴς εὔνους ἐστὶ καὶ χρήσιμος | |
| τεῖ πόλει καὶ τὸν θεὸν προαιρεῖται ἐνκωμιάζειν | |
| διὰ ποημάτων, δεδόχθαι τῶι δήμωι· Δημοκράτην | |
| 5 | *FILOKLE/OUS *)AQHNAI=ON PRO/CENON EI)=NAI KAI\ EU)ERGE/THN |
| τῆς πόλεως Ὠρωπίων καὶ αὐτὸν καὶ ἐγγόνους αὐτοῦ | |
| καὶ εἶναι αὐτοῖς γῆς καὶ οἰκίας ἔνκτησιν καὶ ἀσφάλειαν | |
| καὶ ἀσυλίαν καὶ πολέμου καὶ εἰρήνης καὶ τἆλλα πάν- | |
| τα καθάπερ τοῖς ἄλλοις προξένοις καὶ εὐεργέταις. |