Plassart, A., Inscriptions de Thespies, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 50, 383-462 , Paris 1926 , 444-6 no. 85 (Q5686)
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Base for statue of Vettius Agorius Praetextatus, governor of Achaea. From Thespiae (Achaea). 362-364
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Plassart, A., Inscriptions de Thespies, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 50, 383-462 , Paris 1926 , 444-6 no. 85
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Base for statue of Vettius Agorius Praetextatus, governor of Achaea. From Thespiae (Achaea). 362-364
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The Danaens (= Greeks) set up (the man who) nourishes all Muses (= arts) and all kind of justice, the proconsul of the age-old land of Achaea, the wall of Achaea, crown of Rome, glory of his blood (= family), he has reached the full climax in all virtues, the excellent Agorius, in a marble statue (dedicated to) the Heliconian Muses. The noble-minded Pericles set it up, a man crowned by the calmness of his life and by steady wisdom. By decree of the council and the people.
Plassart, A., Inscriptions de Thespies, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 50, 383-462 , Paris 1926 , 444-6 no. 85
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