Aelius Aristides 41, Letter to the Emperors on Smyrna (snips) (Aristid.Or.41)
Aelius Aristides, LETTER TO THE EMPERORS CONCERNING SMYRNA, from P. Aelius Aristides: The Complete Works, translated by Charles A. Behr, (Leiden: Brill 1981), a work still in copyright, quoted in index snippets only, with minor corrections. Greek text of William Dindorf (1829), a work in the public domain placed online by the Perseus Project (reused by el.wikisource.org) under a Creative Commons license. Behr snippets aligned with the Jebb page numbers by Brady Kiesling. This text has 17 tagged references to 8 ancient places.CTS URN: urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0284.tlg041; Wikidata ID: Q87771226; Trismegistos: #N/A [Open Greek text in new tab]
§ 762 To the Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus ...
§ 763 Remember what you said when you viewed it on approaching, ...
§ 764 What founders, what kings will you not cast in the shade? What bounds of magnanimity will you not surpass by causing all that the city possessed separately through the years to become part of a single foundation? 5 And I have not said these things as if I were advising you and teaching you in your ignorance — I have not been so deranged by this misfortune — , ...
§ 765 I ask and beg that the city receive this favor, ...
§ 766 I shall no longer employ alien examples, but those of you yourselves, ...
§ 767 Hope in you remains. Indeed, formerly it won the highest prizes for its accomplishments, ...