Decree of the cavalry honouring their commanders
SEG 21.525 Date: 282/1 BC
Dromokles son of Arkesas of Oa proposed: since
the cavalry commanders (hipparchoi) and the tribal commanders of cavalry (phularchoi) of the
archonship of Nikias (282/1) have continued to fulfil
their office according to the laws and manage
(5) the cavalry (hippikou) so that it might be serviceable to the People,
and they managed the register (katalogēs) of the
cavalry (hippeōn) and appointed an additional hundred cavalry
so that the cavalry, topped up as far as
possible for the present and numbering
(10) three hundred, might meet the needs of the country (chōrai);
and they managed it so that there were tribal commanders
for all the tribes and the law prohibiting
a man from one tribe volunteering to be tribal commmander of another
was repealed (luthei); and they managed the
(15) valuations and the scrutinies, and conducted
the physical or personnel (sōmatōn) scrutiny according to the
law with the Council well and in the interests
of the People and the cavalry; and
they managed the giving out of grain so that
(20) the cavalry were in fine fettle (eutaktōs) in each
prytany; and in everything else they continue
to show love of honour (philotimoumenoi) both individually and collectively
concerning the cavalry and the People, for good
fortune, the cavalry shall decide to praise
(25) the cavalry commanders, Alkimachos son of Kleoboulos
of Myrrhinous and Nikogenes son of Arkesas
of Euonymon, and to praise the tribal
commanders of cavalry, Dionysios of GargettosI, Menon
of HippotomadaiII, Kallidemos of EuonymonIII,
(30) Kalliades of SteiriaV, Lysippos of KettosVI,
Charias of KephaleVII, Antimachos of AcharnaiVIII,
Proxenos of PhlyaIX, Thrasykles of DekeleiaX,
Aristophon of OinoeXI, Python of AlopekeXII,
and to crown each of them with a gold
(35) crown according to the law for their excellence and
love of honour (philotimias) towards the cavalry and the
People, so that others appointed in the future may also
show love of honour (philotimōntai) in managing the cavalry,
knowing that they will receive thanks worthy
(40) of their benefactions; and the secretaries of the cavalry
commanders shall inscribe this decree
on two stone stelai and stand one
by the Poseidonion, and the other in
the stoa of the Herms.[1]