Decrees for Mytilene, 369-367 BC
IG II2 107 Date: 368/7 BC (decrees 1-2), 369/8 BC (decree 3)
Decree 1[1] Gods.
Of the Mytileneans.
Nausigenes was archon (368/7). AiantisIX was in
prytany. Moschos of Kydathenaion 5 was secretary. Aristyllos of Erchia was chairman.
The Council and the People decided.
Diophantos proposed: concerning what the ambassadors who have come from Lesbos say, the Council shall resolve: that the presiding committee 10 allotted to preside at the next Assembly shall introduce
them to the People, and submit the opinion of the Council to the People
that it seems good to the Council, since the Mytileneans are good
men with regard to the People of Athens both now and in time
past, to praise the People of Mytilene for their goodness
15 to the People of Athens; and they shall have access, if they
need anything, to the Council and the People first after the religious business or after the sacrifices.[2] Also praise Hieroitas because he is a good man with regard to the
People of Athens and of Mytilene. The secretary of the Council
shall inscribe this decree on a stone stele
20 and put it on the acropolis. Inscribe also on the same
stele the decree by which the People replied to
the Mytilenean ambassadors with Hieroitas. For inscribing
the stele the treasurer of the People shall give to the secretary
of the Council 20 drachmas. Praise the ambassadors 25 sent to Mytilene and invite them to dinner in
the city hall tomorrow. Invite also the representatives of the Mytileneans to hospitality in the city hall tomorrow.
Invite also the representatives of the Methymnaians and the Antissans and the Eresians and the Pyrrhaians to hospitality
30 in the city hall tomorrow.
Decree 2 30 Autolykos proposed: in
other respects in accordance with the Council; but praise the ambassadors sent to Lesbos, Timonothos and Autolykos
and Aristopeithes, and invite them to dinner in the city hall tomorrow.
Decree 3 35 In the archonship of Lysistratos (369/8). The Council
and the People decided. Kallistratos
proposed: to praise the People of Mytilene because they fought together through
the war which is over well and enthusiastically.
40 And reply to the ambassadors who
have come that the Athenians fought for
[the freedom] of the Greeks; and when
[the Spartans] were campaigning against the
Greeks contrary to the oaths and the
45 agreement, they themselves supported, and they called on
the other allies to provide the
support due to the Athenians, abiding
by the oaths, against those who were
[contravening] the treaty, and they think it right . . . 50 . . . in time past . . . . . . the People of
Mytilene . . . People of Athens . . . . . . . . . 55 . . . with the Athenians . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 . . . . . .