Funerary inscription in elegiacs for Menogenes Apolloniou,
on stele of whitish marble; AD 40/96; found at Smyrna, perhaps
from Lydia: Fontrier, REA 2, 1900, 359-360; Pfuhl, AA 19, 1904,
186-187 (PH); Peek, MDAI(A) 56, 1931, 126, no. 9e; Peek, GV I
1884; Peek, Griech. Grabged. 435; Pfuhl & Möbius 788 (PH);
*ISmyrna 541 + II 2 p. 374; **Moysey, ZPE 72, 1988, 89-92, no. 2
(PH) (ll. 14-15).
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ISmyrn 541 + II2 p. 374
| 1.1 | Μηνογέ- |
| νης | |
| Ἀπολλω- | |
| νίου Λολου υἱός. | |
| 5 | |
| 2.1 | ρκϛ̣ʹ, μη(νὸς) |
| Ὑπερβερε- | |
| ταίου γʹ. | |
| 5 | νήπιος ἐν τύμβῳ τίς ἄρ’ ἐσθ’ ὅ- |
| δἓ ὡς ἀταλαῖσι χειρσὶν | |
| γλακτοπαγεῖ μαστῷ ἐπι- | |
| κέκλιτε. %⁸⁰ οὔνομα Μηνο- | |
| γένης μοι, ἐτέκνωσεν | |
| 10 | δέ με Λολους, {νε} ὃν πέν- |
| θει στυγερῷ προὔλιπον | |
| ἐν μελάθροις. φεῦ, Μοίρης | |
| εἰκαῖα κριτήρια ὡς ἀλογίστω[ς] | |
| Αὐ̣γῇ[ς] ἔ̣κτινας̣ | |
| 15 | καὶ πατρὸς̣ θε̣μ̣έ̣ν̣ου. |