Honours for Peisitheides of Delos
IG II3 1 452 Date: Ca. 334 BC
. . . of the Athenians . . . [of the?] grants . . . the . . . People . . . (5) and those [with?] . . . . . . of these with (?) . . . towards the People . . . his good will . . . and is a good [man] concerning the Athenians . . . [at every] (10) opportunity does . . . with the Athenian People; so that
everyone may know that the
Athenian People renders fulsome
thanks to those who are its benefactors
(15) and maintain the good will of or their good will towards the People, Peisitheides
son of Peisitheides of Delos[1] shall be an Athenian, himself
and his descendants, except for the one
who has been sent by the enemies of the
(20) city and of Peisitheides to eliminate him;
and he shall be registered in the deme and
tribe and phratry that he wishes,
of those which the laws stipulate;
and the prytany (prutaneis) shall put the vote about him
(25) to the People at the next Assembly;
and the prytany secretary (togrammatea ton kata prutaneian) shall inscribe this decree
on a stone stele and stand it
on the acropolis; and for inscribing
(30) the stele let the treasurer of the People give
thirty drachmas; and if anyone
kills Peisitheides, he shall be
an enemy of the Athenian People, and
any city that receives the killer;
(35) and so that Peisitheides
may not want sustenance (trophēs), until he returns
to Delos, the treasurer of the People
in office at any time shall give Peisitheides
a drachma a day from the
(40) People’s fund for expenditure on
decrees; and in the lawmakers (nomothetais) the
presiding committee (proedrous) in office
and the chairman shall propose an amendment to the law (prosnomothetēsai) for the budgetary officials (apodektas) to allocate this money
(45) to the treasurer of the People
each year; and the
treasurer shall pay it to Peisitheides
each prytany; and if
the presiding committee (proedroi) and the
(50) chairman of the lawmakers (nomothetōn) fail to put this matter to the vote,
each of them shall owe 1,000 drachmas, sacred (hieras) to Athena.
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In crown The People.
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In crown The People.