Posthumous honours for Zeno of Kition
IG II3 1 980 Date: 262/1 BC
In the archonship of Arrheneides (262/1), in the fifth prytany, of
AkamantisVII.[1] On the twenty-first (dekatēi husterai) of Maimakterion, the twenty-third
of the prytany. Principal Assembly. Of the presiding committee Hippon
son of Kratistoleos of Xypete was putting to the vote and his fellow presiding committee members.
(5) Thrason son of Thrason of Anakaia[2] proposed:
since Zenon son of Mnaseas of Kition[3] in his many years spent
in the city in philosophy continued in all other respects to be a good man,
and encouraging the young men who entered his school (sustasin) to excellence (aretēn) and moderation (sōphrosunēn) he urged them on to the best (beltista),
(10) setting out by his own life an example to all in its adherence to the precepts (logois) that he taught (dielegeto), for good fortune, the People shall decide: to praise
Zenon son of Mnaseas of Kition and to crown him with a gold crown according
to the law for his excellence and moderation, and to build for him
a tomb in the Kerameikos at public expense; and the People shall elect
(15) five men from the Athenians to manage the making
of the crown and the building of the tomb; and the secretary
of the People shall inscribe (eggrapsai) the decree on two stelai, and
it shall be permitted to place one in the Academy and the other in the Lyceum;[4] and the administrator (ton epi tēs dioikēseōs)[5] shall allocate the expenditure accrued
(20) for the stelai in order that all may know that the Athenian People
honours good men, both living and dead. For
the building (of the tomb) were elected Thrason of Anakaia, Philokles of Piraeus,
Phaidros of Anaphlystos, Menon of Acharnai,[6] Smikythos of Sypalettos,
Dion of Paiania.