Solemnisers of the Mysteries (mustipoloi) of Demeter, let some sacred monument of me stand beside the temple (anaktorōi) of Deo. My name is Eunike; glorious (kudēessa) Thaleia bore me to my dear father, famous (agaklei) Kallaischros, whose mother was (5) Eunike. Her mother in turn was the modest (saophrōn) hierophantis who took her name (pherōnumos) from Isaios from the East (Antoliēthen): Isidote, he whose glory (kudos) was to have been one of blameless Hadrian’s teachers of eloquence (rhētērōn). My grandfather was Zoilos . . . , who equalled his two brothers in intellect, (10) the one hierophant at the radiant shrine, Glaukos, and then the leader (hēgētori) in philosophy (sophiēs) - he plucked (drepsato) that of Plato - renowned (periōnumōi) Kallaischros. My family is not far removed from the senate, for close to me . . . follows the fame of my Ausonian cousins.
 If this is not poetic pars pro toto, the wording here tends to suggest that, at Eleusis, the anaktoron (properly the abode of a king or deity) may not, as has sometimes been suggested, have been a separate shrine within the Telesterion (the great hall where the Mysteries were revealed to the initiates), but a term used to describe the Telesterion itself.  = Byrne, Roman Citizens, Flavia 22. What office Eunike had held is unclear. Like other persons closely connected with the sanctuary she was honoured there by a statue erected there after her death by family members.  Cf. I.Eleus. 502.  = Byrne, Roman Citizens, Flavius 21.  Isaios had come from Syria, I.Eleus. 502, 6, and had been a teacher of Hadrian, I.Eleus. 502, 8-9.  = Byrne, Roman Citizens, Flavius 15.  = Byrne, Roman Citizens, Flavius 17.  = Byrne, Roman Citizens, Flavius 16.  Ausonian = Italian. These distant cousins included Flavius Dryantianos [= Byrne, Roman Citizens, Flavius 18], who served as an ephebe in Athens (IG II2 3763) and held senatorial rank in Rome (IG II2 2208, 8-9).