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On the Porphyry Column in the Philadelphion
εὔνους μὲν βασιλεῖ Μουσήλιος: ἔργα βοῶσιν
δημόσια: σθεναρὴν πράγματα πίστιν ἔχει.
Μουσεῖον Ῥώμῃ δ᾽ ἐχαρίσσατο, καὶ βασιλῆος
εἰκόνα θεσπεσίην ἐντὸς ἔγραψε δόμων,τιμὴν μουσοπόλοις, πόλεως χάριν, ἐλπίδα κούρων,
— Paton edition
ὅπλα δὲ τῆς ἀρετῆς, χρήματα τοῖς ἀγαθοῖς.
Muselius is a well-wisher of the Emperor. Public
— Paton edition
works proclaim it ; the force of facts is strong. He
presented Constantinople with a Museum and with a
splendid painting of the sovereign inside, an honour
to poets, an ornament of the city, the hope of youth,
the instrument of virtue, the wealth of good men.
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