2. Epigraphy, Ig Ii2, 107
Tagged with subjects: • Autolycus, Athenian ambassador to Lesbos • Autolykos
Found in books: Gygax (2016) 239; Humphreys (2018) 978, 1000
| 107. Decree 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 (presbeis) who have come from Lesbos say, the Council shall resolve: that the presiding committee (proedrous) (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 (meta ta hiera). 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 (presbesi) with Hieroitas. For inscribing the stele the treasurer of the People shall give to the secretary of the Council 20 drachmas. Praise the ambassadors (presbeis) (25) sent to Mytilene and invite them to dinner in the city hall (prutaneion) tomorrow. Invite also the representatives (sunedrous) of the Mytileneans to hospitality (xenia) in the city hall (prutaneion) tomorrow. Invite also the representatives (sunedrous) of the Methymnaians and the Antissans and the Eresians and the Pyrrhaians to hospitality (30) in the city hall (prutaneion) tomorrow. Decree 2 (30) Autolykos proposed: in other respects in accordance with the Council; but praise the ambassadors (presbeis) sent to Lesbos, Timonothos and Autolykos and Aristopeithes, and invite them to dinner (deipnon) in the city hall (prutaneion) 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 (presbesin) 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) . . . . . . text from Attic Inscriptions Online, IG II2
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3. Strabo, Geography, 12.3.11
Tagged with subjects: • Autolycus • Autolykos of Sthennis, artwork • Autolykos, Argonaut hero • Mythological figures (excluding Olympian gods and their offspring), Autolykos • Oracles (Greek), Sinope, oracle of Autolykos
Found in books: Marek (2019) 268, 475; Renberg (2017) 526; Rutledge (2012) 47
| 12.3.11. Then one comes to Sinope itself, which is fifty stadia distant from Armene; it is the most noteworthy of the cities in that part of the world. This city was founded by the Milesians; and, having built a naval station, it reigned over the sea inside the Cyaneae, and shared with the Greeks in many struggles even outside the Cyaneae; and, although it was independent for a long time, it could not eventually preserve its freedom, but was captured by siege, and was first enslaved by Pharnaces and afterwards by his successors down to Eupator and to the Romans who overthrew Eupator. Eupator was both born and reared at Sinope; and he accorded it especial honor and treated it as the metropolis of his kingdom. Sinope is beautifully equipped both by nature and by human foresight, for it is situated on the neck of a peninsula, and has on either side of the isthmus harbors and roadsteads and wonderful pelamydes-fisheries, of which I have already made mention, saying that the Sinopeans get the second catch and the Byzantians the third. Furthermore, the peninsula is protected all round by ridgy shores, which have hollowed-out places in them, rock-cavities, as it were, which the people call choenicides; these are filled with water when the sea rises, and therefore the place is hard to approach, not only because of this, but also because the whole surface of the rock is prickly and impassable for bare feet. Higher up, however, and above the city, the ground is fertile and adorned with diversified market-gardens; and especially the suburbs of the city. The city itself is beautifully walled, and is also splendidly adorned with gymnasium and marked place and colonnades. But although it was such a city, still it was twice captured, first by Pharnaces, who unexpectedly attacked it all of a sudden, and later by Lucullus and by the tyrant who was garrisoned within it, being besieged both inside and outside at the same time; for, since Bacchides, who had been set up by the king as commander of the garrison, was always suspecting treason from the people inside, and was causing many outrages and murders, he made the people, who were unable either nobly to defend themselves or to submit by compromise, lose all heart for either course. At any rate, the city was captured; and though Lucullus kept intact the rest of the city's adornments, he took away the globe of Billarus and the work of Sthenis, the statue of Autolycus, whom they regarded as founder of their city and honored as god. The city had also an oracle of Autolycus. He is thought to have been one of those who went on the voyage with Jason and to have taken possession of this place. Then later the Milesians, seeing the natural advantages of the place and the weakness of its inhabitants, appropriated it to themselves and sent forth colonists to it. But at present it has received also a colony of Romans; and a part of the city and the territory belong to these. It is three thousand five hundred stadia distant from the Hieron, two thousand from Heracleia, and seven hundred from Carambis. It has produced excellent men: among the philosophers, Diogenes the Cynic and Timotheus Patrion; among the poets, Diphilus the comic poet; and, among the historians, Baton, who wrote the work entitled The Persica."". None |
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