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A Sicilian Inscription

Inscriptiones Graecae XIV 268 (Selinus, 5th century BC), tr. R. Ross Holloway, The Archaeology of Ancient Sicily (1991; rpt. London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 76-77:
Through these gods the Selinuntines are victorious. We are victorious through Zeus and through Phobos (Ares), through Heracles and through Apollo and through Poseidon and through the sons of Tyndareus (Castor and Pollux) and through Athene and through Malophorus (Demeter) and Pasikrateia (Persephone) and through the other gods but especially Zeus. Inscribing then the peace treaty in gold, appending these names, dedicate it in the temple of Apollo, making Zeus' version an inscription. And the gold shall weigh sixty talents.

[Δι]ὰ τὸς θεὸς τό[σ]δε νικοντι τοὶ Σελινον[τίοι. τὸν Δία νικομες καὶ διὰ τὸν Φόβον [καὶ] δ[ιὰ] Ηρακλέα καὶ δι' Ἀπόλλονα καὶ διὰ Π[οτ]ε[ιδά]να καὶ διὰ Τυνδαρίδας καὶ δι' Ἀθ[α]ναίαν καὶ διὰ Μαλοφόρον καὶ διὰ Πασικρά[τ]ειαν καὶ δι[ὰ] τὸς ἄλλος θεός, [δ]ιὰ δ[ὲ] Δία μάλιστ[α]. Φιλί[ας] δὲ γενομένας ἐν χρυσέο[ι] ἐλά[σα]τα[ς, τὰ δ'] ὀνύματα ταῦτα κολάψαντ[ας ἐς] τὸ ̓Α[π]ολ[λ]όνιον καθθέμεν, τὸ Διὸς προ]γρά[ψα]ντες· τὸ δὲ χρυσίον ἐξέκ[οντα τ]αλάντον ἔμεν.
J.B. Hainsworth, ed., Tituli ad dialectos Graecas illustrandas selecti, Fasc. 2: Tituli Dorici et Ionici (Leiden: Brill, 1972), p. 16:
See Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile: Contribution à l'étude du vocabulaire grec colonial (Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1989 = Publications de l'École française de Rome, 119), pp. 74-79.



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