Inscription in elegiacs praising Andron, Herodotos, and
Panyassis; late Hellenistic; found on Rhodes, from Halikarnassos:
IG XII 1, 145; Hiller von Gaertringen, MDAI(A) 21, 1896, 61-62;
Geffcken, GE 203; Hiller von Gaertringen & Peek, Hermes 76,
1941, 220-223; Wilhelm, AAWW 1947, 73-86; Merkelbach, ZPE 11,
1973, 274; Peek, ZPE 31, 1978, 256-258 (PH); SEG 28, 842; Ebert,
Philologus 130, 1986, 37-43 (PH) (non vidi); *SEG 36, 975.
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SEG 36, 975
| 1 | [—] |
| λ̣ά̣ϊ̣ν̣ο̣[ν Ἀ]σ̣συρίη [χῶμ]α Σεμι[ρά]μιος· | |
| ἀλλ̣’ Ἄ̣ν̣δ̣ρ̣ωνα̣ οὐκ ἔσχε Νίνου πόλις, οὐδὲ παρ’ Ἰνδοῖς | |
| ῥ̣ι̣ζ̣οφυὴς Μουσέων πτόρθος ἐνετρέφετο· | |
| 5 | [κοὐ] μ̣ὴ̣ν̣ Ἡροδότου γλύκιον στόμα καὶ Πανύασσιν |
| ἡ̣[δυ]ε̣π̣ῆ̣ Βαβυλὼν ἔτρεφεν ὠγυγίη, | |
| ἀ̣λλ’ Ἁλικαρνασσοῦ κραναὸν πέδον· ὧν διὰ μολπὰς | |
| κ̣λ̣ει̣τὸν ἐν Ἑλλήνων ἄστεσι κῦδος ἔχει. |