History & Politics
Book XVI, 42
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
History & Politics
We erected here in marble the statue of Theodosius, great in counsel, the Proconsul, ruler of Asia, because he raised Smyrna from ruin and brought her .to light again, the city much besung for her beautiful edifices.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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