Aelius Aristides 41, Letter to the Emperors on Smyrna
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§ 762 To the Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus...
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§ 763 Remember what you said when you viewed it on approaching,...
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§ 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 —,...
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§ 765 I ask and beg that the city receive this favor,...
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§ 766 I shall no longer employ alien examples, but those of you yourselves,...
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§ 767 Hope in you remains. Indeed, formerly it won the highest prizes for its accomplishments,...
Via ToposText (topostext.org), a project of the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation created by Brady Kiesling. Translated by Charles Allison Behr. Composed ca. 177 CE. Licence: under copyright, English snippets and Greek text. Source.