In 67 CE, the Roman princeps Nero visited the province of Achaea for the purpose of making a momentous announcement. In the process, he ordered as many Greeks as possible to be in Corinth on the twenty-eighth of November of that same year to hear their reward for what the princeps said was their “goodwill and piety” toward him.1 Suetonius records that during the celebration of the Isthmian Games while Nero stood in the midst of the stadium at Isthmia he declared the reward in question in the form of a speech, a copy of which survives in the form of an inscription.