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Royal Correspondence: 27


LETTER OF AN UNKNOWN KING TO KOS

Original text:   Asylia_10
Date:     c. 240 B.C.
Format:   see key to translations


{ Welles, following previous editors, assigned this letter to Ptolemaios III: see the comment on letter 28. }

. . . everlasting . . . they said also had favoured the people by helping to establish the inviolability. For our part, for the sake both of the god and the city, we give our recognition as your requested and we shall direct our subjects to consider the temple inviolable within the limits you have marked with boundary stones. Farewell.

letter 28


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