Funerary inscription in elegiacs for Theagenes, on column;
2/3; found at Stratonikeia: Cousin, BCH 15, 1891, 429, no. 19;
Peek, GVI I 1787; BE 1959:397; *IStratonikeia 1203.
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IStr 1203
| 1 | οὔνομά μοι θεῖον, τὸ γέ- |
| νος δέ μοι ἐκ βροτοῦ ἐστιν· | |
| πλεύσας δ’ εἰς Αἴγυπτον ἐγὼ | |
| καὶ ῥεῖθρα τὰ Νείλου, | |
| 5 | ❦ καὶ θορύβους προφυγὼν καὶ κύ- |
| ματα πολλὰ περήσας, | |
| νήμασι Μοιράων ἀλύτοισι δα- | |
| μεὶς ἴδε κεῖμαι, | |
| κέρδος ἔχων βιότου τὸν | |
| 10 | τάφον ἐν πατρίδι. |
| Θεαγένης. |