Honorary inscription for Aulus Mussius Aper, rhetor and poet, by demos, on statue-base; imperial; found at Iasos: Reinach, REG 6, 1893, 181, no. 20; BE 1894:393; *IIasos 94.  
[ ] IIasos 94
1 ὁ δῆμος Αὖλον Μούσσιον
Ἄπρον εὐγενείᾳ καὶ ἀξι-
ώματι πρῶτον καὶ ἐξοχώ-
τατον τῆς πατρίδος διά
5 τε τὴν τῶν ἠθῶν ἀμεί-
μητον ἀρετὴν καὶ διὰ τὴν
ἐν ῥητορικῇ καὶ ποιητικῇ
καὶ τῇ λοιπῇ πάσῃ σοφίᾳ
ποικιλωτάτην καὶ ἀσύν-
10 κριτον μεγαλοφυιείαν.
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