Inscription in elegiacs recording restoration of theater
by (proconsul) Messalinus; 4; found at Ephesos: CIG 2976; LW 150;
Kaibel 1050; Heberdey, JÖAI 1, 1898 Beibl. 77, no. I; FiE II no.
43; Grégoire, Rec. 1002; Bakhuizen van den Brink 182-183, no. 2;
Hellenica 4, 87; Gallina, Teatri Classici IV 221, no. 19; *IEph
2043.
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IEph 2043
| 1 | τέρπεο καὶ σκηνῆς πολυ- |
| γηθέος ἔκτοθι μίμνων | |
| Μεσσαλινοῦ κλεινοῖς ἔρ- | |
| γμασιν ἡδόμενος, | |
| 5 | οἷς θεάτρου κύκλου περιώσιον |
| ἐξεσάωσεν· | |
| πανδαμάτωρ δὲ χρόνος | |
| εἶξεν ἀρηγοσύνῃ· | |
| ❦ εὐτυχῶς. ❦ |