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grbs-3501	Jones, Christopher P.	The Decree of Ilion in Honor of a King Antiochus	1993	20	.pdf	application/pdf	9182	337	62	Whereas in the beginning King Antiochus, son of King Seleucus, having succeeded to the kingdom and conducting a noble and honorable policy, sought to restore the cities throughout the Seleucis, which were beset by difficult circumstances because of those rebelling against the state, to peace and their former prosperity, and (sought), by pun­ ishing as was right those who attacked the state, to recover his ancestral rule; for which reason, both pursuing a laud­ able and just ambition and having not only his Friends and the forces as his supporters in contending for the state, but (having) also the divine as his well-disposed helper, he re­ stored the cities to peace and the kingdom to its previous condition; and (whereas) now, having arrived in the region on this side of the Taurus, with all energy and love of glory he has simultaneously achieved peace for the cities and brought the state and the kingdom to a greater and more brilliant con­ dition, above all by his own valor and also by the goodwill of the Friends and the forces; in order therefore that the people, since it also formerly, at the time when he succeeded to the kingdom, continuous­ ly made prayers and sacrifices on his behalf to all the gods, JONES, CHRISTOPHER P., The Decree of Ilion in Honor of a King Antiochus , Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, 34:1 (1993:Spring) p.73 76 THE DECREE OF ILION may now too make clear to the king that it is well-disposed and has the same attitude (as before); with good fortune, be it decreed by the council and the people that the priestess, the hieronomoi and the prytaneis pray to Athena of Ilion together with the envoys that the arrival of the king and his sister the queen, the Friends, and the forces should have been for the best, and that all other good things should come about for the king and the queen, and that the state and their kingdom should last, increasing as they themselves desire. Makkabderbuch (Gutersloh 1976) 257 n.22; P. G AmHIER, Nouvelles inscriptions de Sardes II (Geneva 1989: hereafter 'Gauthier, Sardes ') 41. JONES, CHRISTOPHER P., The Decree of Ilion in Honor of a King Antiochus , Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, 34:1 (1993:Spring) p.73 CHRISTOPHER P. JONES 83 for the safety of our brother King Antiochus, ourselves, and our young children (1tat()la).	cache/grbs-3501.pdf	txt/grbs-3501.txt