The end of this treaty was previously known from fragment B; but the recent discovery of part A on a statue base at Kibyra - together with a small part of the Latin text of the treaty - has enabled it to be dated more accurately. Line 4 of part A refers to an Era of Kibyra, which apparently began in 191 B.C., just before the first Roman army crossed over to Asia.
The translation has been made from the Greek text in SEG 69.969. There is also a German translation of the treaty, along with the Greek and Latin texts, in R.M. Errington, "Die Staatsverträge des Altertums", vol. 4, no. 632 ( Google Books ).
[A] When Spurius Postumius, son of Aulus, and Quinctus Mucius, son of Quinctus, were consuls, and Marcus Furius, son of Gaius, was urban praetor, in the month of December; and in the seventeenth year at Kibyra, in the sacred month of Gorpiaios; the envoys of Kibyra were Moagetes son of Iagoas the son of Orglos, and Paos son of Trokondas the son of Olousis, and Moagetes son of Orgōllis the son of Moas, and Tlepolemos son of Mikos the son of Moxisphos, noble men who were worthy of their fatherland.
They renewed the mutual friendship and alliance, which had previously been recorded 10 when Marcus Valerius son of Marcus and Gaius Livius son of Marcus were consuls { 188 B.C. }. The treaty between the people of Rome and the people of Kibyra shall be on these terms. There shall be alliance and true friendship between them by land and by sea for all time. There shall be no war between them. The people of Kibyra shall not, by public decision and with malicious intent, permit the enemies and opponents of the people of Rome to go through their territory and the territory that the govern, for the purpose of making war on the people of Rome and those subject to the Romans; 20 nor shall they provide the enemies with food or weapons or money or ships, nor shall they send out soldiers by public decision and with malicious intent. The people of Rome shall not, by public decision and with malicious intent, permit the enemies and opponents of the people of Kibyra to go through their territory and the territory that the govern, for the purpose of making war on the people of Kibyra and those subject to the Kibyrans; nor shall they provide the enemies with food or weapons or money or ships, nor shall they send out soldiers by public decision 30 [and with malicious intent] . . .
[B] . . . [it shall be permitted] for the [people] of Rome to do this. And if anyone starts a war against the people of Rome or transgresses the treaty, then the people of Kibyra shall appropriately come to the aid of the Romans, as far as the people of Kibyra is able under the terms of this treaty and its oaths. If the people of Rome and the people of Kibyra jointly wish to add anything to or remove anything from this treaty, it shall be possible though the joint wish and public approval of both sides. Anything 10 that they add to the treaty shall be included in the treaty, and anything that they remove from the treaty shall be excluded from the treaty. This treaty shall be engraved on bronze tablets and set up in the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus in Rome and on the base of the golden statue of Rome that has been voted for in [Kibyra].
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