Citizenship for Alexander from Beroia in Macedon
IG II3 1 939 Date: Ca. 285–270 BC
. . . [... the Council shall decide:] that the presiding committee (proedrous) allotted to
preside at the next Assembly
shall put the matter on the agenda
and submit the opinion of the Council
(5) to the People, that it seems good to the Council
to praise Alexandros son of Mylleas
[the Macedonian] from Beroia for his excellence (aretēs) and good will towards the Athenian People, and to crown
(10) him with a gold crown according
to the law; and he shall be Athenian,
and his descendants, and he shall enrol
in the tribe and deme and phratry
that he wishes according to the law;
(15) and the court presidents (thesmothetas) shall introduce
for him the scrutiny (dokimasian) of his citizenship
to the court; and the secretary
of the People shall inscribe this decree
on a stone stele
(20) and stand it on the acropolis; and
the board of administrators (tous epi tēs dioikēseōs) shall give
the expenditure for the inscription.