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.
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Plassart, A., Inscriptions de Thespies, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 50, 383-462 , Paris 1926 , 444-6 no. 85
2012
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