MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS OF MARCUS AURELIUS
Marcus to the Guild of Dionysus Briseus at Smyrna[1]
Marcus Aurelius Caesar, son of the Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Adrianus Augustus, Father of his country, invested with Tribunitian Power, Consul for the second time, to the Synod of the Guild of Dionysus Briseus, greeting:
Your good will which you shewed in congratulating me on the birth of a son,[2] even though the issue belied our hopes, was none the less manifest.
T. Atilius Maximus, the most honourable proconsul and our friend, inscribed the decree.
I wish you farewell: from Lorium, the 28th March.
The inscription was made by M. Antonius Artemas, Sulpicius Rufinus being honorary treasurer.
Marcus and Herodes Atticus
After the events in Pannonia[3] Herodes lived in Attica in his favourite denies of Marathon and
- ↑ This inscription is on a stone, found at Smyrna, recording the minutes of a guild-meeting of the mystae (initiated), who met in the temple of Dionysus Briseus at Smyrna.
- ↑ Titus Aelius Antoninus, to whom there is an inscription in the Exhedra of Herodes at Olympia; see Dessau, ii. 8803. There is a difficulty about the birth of this son, as Capit. Vit. Marci, vi. 6, says that Marcus received the Trib. Pot. on the birth of a daughter, and yet we know he received it in 147. The daughter was born in 146.
- ↑ For these see Marcus Antoninus in the Loeb series, pp. 366 ff.
