Christian honorary inscription in elegiacs for Ampelios for adapting Agora Gate as fountain, composed by Pythiodoros of Tralles, on Agora Gate; 5m?; found at Aphrodisias: *Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 38 (PH).  
[ ] Roueché, Aphrodisias 38
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ἴδμονι θεσμοσύνης γλυκερῷ γενετῆρι τιθήνης
Ἀμπελίῳ Νύμφαι χάριν ἴσχομεν οὕνεκα θάμβος
χώρῳ φυνικόεντι καὶ ἀγλαὸν ὤπασε κάλλος
ὄφρα καὶ ἡμετέροις τις ἐν ὕδασιν ὄμμα τιταίνων
5 αὐτὸν ἀεὶ καὶ χῶρον ὁμοῦ Νύμφας τε λιγαίνοι.
Τραλλιανὸς ῥητὴρ τάδ’ ἐγράψατο Πυθιόδωρος.
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