§ 1: Our city, amidst his image receives her benefactor in person
§ 29: The cities are beaming with joy, one exalting against the other; but all have produced a common decor, setting up your images (statues?) in response to the benefactions, and with them do we ... . Words honour your images, and competitions of words, and thereby the Muses.
§ 30 But what are we going to write on these? What do we have [worthy] of [your] dignity? At any rate, these [words]: "The city [honours] the benefactor through whom I now raise my proud neck and am a city (polis)".