Letter from Hadrian on gifts for the boys (132 AD)

Oliver, Constitutions 85 Date: 132 AD
 
in shield Olympios[1] Emperor Caesar, son of the God Trajan Parthicus, grandson of the God Nerva, Trajan (5)Hadrian Augustus, pontifex maximus tribunician power 16 times, consul 3 times, father of the fatherland (132 AD), to the Areopagos Council and the Council of the 500 and the People of the Athenians, greetings. (10)Know that I take every excuse to do good, both publicly for the city and privately for any Athenians; to your boys, I give . . . for the ornamentation (kosmō),[2] which . . . talents . . . . . . Farewell.