Funerary inscription in hexameter and elegiacs for doctor
Epaphrode<i>tos; 22; found at Stratonikeia, not Smyrna, not at
Stratonikeia in Lydia: Peek, MDAI(A) 56, 1931, 123-124, no. 7;
Peek, GVI I 1934; Pfuhl & Möbius 2112 (PH); Robert, Gnomon 30,
1959, 19 (= OM III 1658); BE 1959:397; Parlasca, MDAI(R) 77,
1970, 130, Taf. 59, 2 (PH); BE 1971:618; Wilhelm, GE 78-79, no.
100; SEG 30, 1280; *IStratonikeia 1202.
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IStr 1202
| 1 | Κυπρογένους Παφίης ὁ ἐπώνυ- |
| μος ἐνθάδε κεῖμαι, ἠΐθεος κοῦρο[ς,] | |
| προλιπὼν ὥραν βιότοιο. θρέψας μοι Κάρπος στήλην μνήμης ἐπέθη- | |
| κεν, πάντα ὀλέσας καρπὸν τῶν ἐπ’ ἐμο[ὶ] | |
| 5 | καμάτων. πολλοὺς Ἐπαφρόδε<ι>τε σ[ὺ] |
| μὲν νοσέοντας ἔγειρας, εἰητρὸς | |
| γεγαὼς πᾶσιν ἑταιρότατος, ἀμ- | |
| φότερον τέχνην τ’ ἀγαθὸς καὶ ἤθεα | |
| κεδνός, τῆς γὰρ ἐπιστήμης μαλλο- | |
| 10 | φρονεῖν ἔμαθες· ἀλλ’ οὔτοι σ<⁶⁶εαυ>⁶⁶τὸ[ν] |
| νούσου ἐδυνήσαο σῶσαι, ἰητρῶν γὰρ | |
| ἔφυ Μῦρα κραταιοτέρα. |