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Handout #11 |
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Merchant and Preacher |
| If you want to know which mortal lies here, with
no secrets, only his works, this inscription will tell you
everything.
Euteknios is his surname, lulianos his name, Laodicea his home, a splendid adornment to Syria. There was renown on his father's side, and his mother was of equal rank; at the service of all and giving them their due, and in return receiving the affection of all. When he spoke to the Celts, persuasion dropped from his lips. He traveled among many nations. He knew numerous people and showed the strength of his spirit among them. Ceaselessly exposed to waves and to the sea, he brought to the Celts and the land of the West all that God had determined should be borne by the land of the East, in all its fertility, because he loved it, man that he was. He moved the three tribes of the Celts towards the degrees ...Greek inscription (beginning of the third century?) found in Lyons in 1972. |
