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INVESTIGATIONS AT ASSOS, 1881.
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protection, even as he himself promised when with his father Germanicus
he first entered upon the government of our city.
Oath of the Assians.
We swear by the Saviour and Deity Caesar Augustus, and by the pure
Virgin whom our fathers worshipped, that we will be faithful to Gaius
Caesar Augustus and all his house, and that we will consider those our
friends whom he shall prefer, and those our enemies whom he shall declare.
May it be well with us if we are true to our oaths, and may it be other-
wise if we are false to them.
These offered themselves as ambassadors at their own expense : —
Gaius Varius Castus, son of Gaius, of the tribe Voltinia.
Hermophanes, son of Zoi'lus,
Ctetus, son of Pisistratus,
Aeschrion, son of Calliphanes,
Artemidorus, son of Philomusus,
who also invoked Jupiter Capitolinus for the safety of Gaius Caesar
Augustus Germanicus and made sacrifice in the name of the city.
II.
This inscription, copied by Mr. W. C. Lawton, was found on two frag-
ments of stone, September 5 and 6, 1881, in Assos, at the eastern end of
the Stoa plateau, in a narrow passage which ran close to the edge of the
parapet and was probably the chief outlet thence to the lower town. It
contains a decree, passed by some town whose name is lost, giving a
crown and a vote of thanks to the town of Assos for sending judges or
referees to decide certain lawsuits, and giving the same distinctions to the
judges themselves. The upper part of the inscription, with most of the
preamble, is lost. Inscription No. 3568 f in Boeckh, Corpus Inscript.
Graec. vol. ii. p. 1128, contains a similar vote of thanks sent by the town
of Peltae to Antandros : Boeckh assigns this document to the third cen-
tury before Christ. No facsimile of the present inscription, giving forms
of the letters by which its date could be determined, has been received.
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protection, even as he himself promised when with his father Germanicus
he first entered upon the government of our city.
Oath of the Assians.
We swear by the Saviour and Deity Caesar Augustus, and by the pure
Virgin whom our fathers worshipped, that we will be faithful to Gaius
Caesar Augustus and all his house, and that we will consider those our
friends whom he shall prefer, and those our enemies whom he shall declare.
May it be well with us if we are true to our oaths, and may it be other-
wise if we are false to them.
These offered themselves as ambassadors at their own expense : —
Gaius Varius Castus, son of Gaius, of the tribe Voltinia.
Hermophanes, son of Zoi'lus,
Ctetus, son of Pisistratus,
Aeschrion, son of Calliphanes,
Artemidorus, son of Philomusus,
who also invoked Jupiter Capitolinus for the safety of Gaius Caesar
Augustus Germanicus and made sacrifice in the name of the city.
II.
This inscription, copied by Mr. W. C. Lawton, was found on two frag-
ments of stone, September 5 and 6, 1881, in Assos, at the eastern end of
the Stoa plateau, in a narrow passage which ran close to the edge of the
parapet and was probably the chief outlet thence to the lower town. It
contains a decree, passed by some town whose name is lost, giving a
crown and a vote of thanks to the town of Assos for sending judges or
referees to decide certain lawsuits, and giving the same distinctions to the
judges themselves. The upper part of the inscription, with most of the
preamble, is lost. Inscription No. 3568 f in Boeckh, Corpus Inscript.
Graec. vol. ii. p. 1128, contains a similar vote of thanks sent by the town
of Peltae to Antandros : Boeckh assigns this document to the third cen-
tury before Christ. No facsimile of the present inscription, giving forms
of the letters by which its date could be determined, has been received.