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Ὀνητορίδης, Ε[ὐη]θίδης, ← Κράτης, Ἀρχέδικο[ς], Ναύκριτος, Φιλοξενίδης, Δημήτριος, Αἰγυπτία, Φιλόδημος, Προκλείδης, Ἀρίστυλλα καὶ τοὺς μετ’ ἐκείνων·ὥσπερ ταῦτα ψυχρὰ καὶ ἐπαρίστερα,οὕτω̣ς τὰ Κράτητος τὰ ῥήματα ψυχρὰ [καὶ][ἐπαρί]στερα γέν[οι]το καὶ τῶν μετ’ ἐκείν[ου][πάντων] καὶ τῶν δικα[στῶν μν]ήμην ἐ̣[ν ‒ ‒]‒ ‒ ‒ π̣ά<ν>τ[α]ς ἄφρ̣ο̣[νας κατ]έ̣χετε̣ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒

ὥσπερ̣ σὺ ἄωρος, [οὕ]‒ ←τ̣ω ἄω̣ρ̣α καὶ ἀτέλ‒ε[σ]τα [εἶ]ν̣αι, ἄωρα[καὶ] ψυχ[ρ]ὰ καὶ ἀπα‒ ‒[Εὐ]η̣θίδη[ς], Ὀνητο[ρίδης]‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒ ‒

Onetorides, Euethides,Krates, Archedikos, Naukritos,Philoxenides,Demetrios, Aigyptia,Philodemos, Prokleides,Aristyllaund die mit jenen:so wie das hier kalt und falschherum ist,so sollen von Krates die Reden kalt undfalschherum werden und von denen mit jenemallen, und von den Richtern das Erinnern bei - - -- - - alle törichten packt - - -- - -

So wie Du unzeitig (gestorben bist), sounzeitig und unfertigsei es, unzeitigund kalt und alle- -Euethides, Onetorides,- - -- - -

Onetorides, Euethides,Krates, Archedikos, Naukritos,Philoxenides,Demetrios, Aigyptia,Philodemos, Prokleides,Aristyllaand those with them:just as this is cold and is written backwards,in the same way must Krates’ words be coldand achieve the opposite, and also of those with himall, and the memory of the judges in - - -- - - restrain all crazy - - -- - -

Just as you are dead before your time, thusunripe and unacompli-shed should be (everything), unripeand cold and - - -;Euethides, Onetorides,- - -- - -

Inscriptiones Atticae Euclidis anno posteriores, ed. tertia. Pars VIII: Miscellanea. Fasc. 1: Defixiones Atticae. Edid. Jaime Curbera. – XIII, 431 S., XXV Tab.