Proxeny decree for the poet Demokrates, son of Philokles, of Athens. Statue base of Pentelic marble.
[ ] 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
DIA\ POHMA/TWN, DEDO/XQAI TW=I DH/MWI: *DHMOKRA/THN
5 Φιλοκλέους Ἀθηναῖον πρόξενον εἶναι καὶ εὐεργέτην
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.
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