Honours for the priests on Delos
I Délos 1499 Date: 153/2 BC
. . . . . . Philokles son of Lykiskos of Atene proposed. Since the priests on Delos in the archonship of Phaidrias (153/2) performed all the customary
sacrifices on behalf of the
(5) Council and the People of the Athenians and
the children and women and the People of the Romans
and the Athenians dwelling
on Delos, and the sacrifices were auspicious,
and conducted themselves
(10) in office in other respects well and in a seemly fashion (euschēmonōs),
for good fortune, the Council shall decide, that the
presiding committee allotted to preside at the forthcoming
Assembly shall put these matters on the agenda, and
submit the opinion of the Council to the People
(15) that it seems good to the Council to praise the
priests on Delos in the archonship of Phaidrias (153/2),
Drakon of Phlya, Gorgias of
Ionidai, Lenaios of Hermai, Serapion
of Pambotadai, Herakleides of Pambotadai,
(25) Protogenes of Paiania, Leontichos of Dekeleia,
Straton of Kephisia, Pylades of Perithoidai,
and crown each
of them with a laurel crown for their piety (eusebeias) towards the gods and . . . . . .