Citizenship for a poet
IG II3 1 856 Date: Ca. 295/4 BC
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the prytany shall put the vote about him
at the next Assembly; and the court presidents (thesmothetas) shall bring
the scrutiny (dokimasian) for him before
the court according to the law; and the inspector (exetastēn) (5) and the trittys commanders (trittuarchous) shall stand a bronze statue
of him in the theatre of Dionysos and shall allocate the expenditure for this;
and three men shall be chosen from all the
Athenians who will manage the making
of the statue and its setting up so that it might be as good
(10) as possible;[1] and this decree shall be inscribed
on two stone stelai and one shall be placed in the
Dionysion,[2] the other on the acropolis; and for
inscribing the stelai the administratror (ton epi tēi dioikēsei) shall give 30 (scil. drachmas) for each from the People’s fund
(15) for expenditure on decrees.
The following were elected:
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