Funerary epigram for Neoplatonic philosophers Syrianus and Proclus.  Text known from literary sources.
[ ] Attica — Athens — Mt. Lykabettos — after 485 AD — Marinus, Vita Procli 36; AP 7.341 — W. Peek, GVI I 1060 — E. Sironen, Inscriptions (1997) 156, 82
1 Πρόκλος ἐγὼ γενόμην Λύκιος γένος, ὃν Συριανὸς
            ἐνθάδ’ ἀμοιβὸν ἑῆς θρέψε διδασκαλίης.
ξυνὸς δ’ ἀμφοτέρων ὅδε σώματα δέξατο τύμβος·
            αἴθε δὲ καὶ ψυχὰς χῶρος ἕεις λελάχοι.
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