Honorary inscription in elegiacs for Antileon Menandrou by
[dem]os of Kaunos, on statue-base; III; found at Kaunos: Bean,
JHS 73, 1953, 29-30, no. 10 (PH); BE 1954:229 (p. 170); *SEG 12,
472; Moretti, Athenaeum 33, 1955, 32-37; SEG 15, 631; BE
1956:274; **Peek, GVAK 28-29, no. 13 (ll. 5, 11).
| 1 | [ὁ δῆμ]ος ὁ Καυνίων |
| [Ἀν]τ̣ι[λέον]τα [Με]ν̣άνδρου· | |
| τοὺς ἀγαθοὺς [ὑμν]εῖν ὀλ[ίγ]ος πόνος, ἁ δὲ παρ’ ἀστῶν | |
| τ̣ιμ̣ὰ καρύσσ[ει πα]ν̣τ̣όσ[ε] τὰς χάριτας. | |
| 5 | ὅσσα δ’ ἔχω λα̣[λέει]μ̣, [φίλ’ ὅμ]ως καλὰ καὶ φίλα δάμωι, |
| ἀτρεκὲς ἔγ μ̣[ου ἔπ]ος? πεύθεο τᾶσδε λίθου· | |
| τὸν δορὶ πόλλ’ [ἀνύσαν]τα κ̣α̣ὶ εὐ[κ]λ̣έα σὺμ βασιλεῦσιν | |
| Βακχιάδαις π[όντο]υ̣ [κ]α̣ὶ̣ χ̣θ̣ο̣ν̣ὸ̣ς̣ ἁ̣γ̣εμόσιν | |
| Ἀντιλέοντα λέγω τ̣ο̣ι ἐ̣π̣ι[κ]λέο[ς] υἷα Μενάνδρου, | |
| 10 | ὄλβιος, εἰ τοσσ̣ῶ̣νδ̣’ ἀ̣ν̣τέ̣τ̣υ̣χ̣’ εἰ̣ς γεράων· |
| ὃς δὲ καὶ ἐξανύ̣σ̣ας̣ [ὑ]μ̣ν̣[ηθ’ ἕ]ο χεῖρας ἐπ’ ὄλβου | |
| ὤρεξεν, μεγάλ̣ο̣ις ἀθανάτοισι φίλος. |