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.