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p.abinn.18 ca. 346Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)

Letter from Chairemon to Abinnaeus threatening a complaint to the dux. A sharply worded letter from Chairemon, apparently a member of the town council, to the military commander Abinnaeus. He accuses Abinnaeus of withdrawing his soldiers from the village of Theoxenis and blocking an inquiry into a burglary and livestock thefts, and threatens to report him to the dux unless the soldiers are sent back. Written around AD 346 in the Arsinoite nome. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ Ἀβινναίῳ […] Χαιρήμων. οὐ καλῶς ποιεῖς τοιαῦτα πράττων ἀλλὰ ὑπομένεις κίνδυνον κακουργῶν συνλημφθῆναι. ἐπὶ τῆς Θεοξενίδος ἀπέστειλας τοὺς στρατιώτας τοὺς ὑπό σε καὶ ἀπέσπασας σας αὐτοὺς ἀδικημάτων τοσούτων γεναμένων ἐν τῇ κώμῃ. οἶδας γὰρ ὅτι ἡ οἰκία τοῦ Ἁτρῆ ἐσυλήθη, ἔχοντος αὐτοῦ καὶ τοσαῦτα ἀλλότρια ἐν παραθέσει· καὶ ἀπελασίαι κτηνῶν γεγόνασιν, καὶ οὐκ ἐπέτρεψας ἐξέτασιν αὐτῶν γενέσθαι, ἀλλὰ ἥρπαξας αὐτοὺς ὡς ἐν ἀνομίᾳ· μὰ τὸν γὰρ θεὸν ἢ τούτους ἀπόστειλον ἵνα γνῶμεν τὰ πραχθέντα ὑπὸ αὐτῶν ἢ πάντες οἱ ἀπὸ τοῦ βουλευτηρίου ἀνανέγκωμεν ἐπὶ τὸν δεσπότην μου τὸν δοῦκα περὶ τούτου. καὶ γὰρ οἱἀπὸ ἐποικίου Κτήσεως ἔνγραφα ἐπιδεδώκασιν καί ἐμοὶ καὶ Ἀτάμμωνι τῷ πραιποσίτῳ αὐτῶν κατʼ ἐσοῦ· λοιπὸν ὃ οἶδας σύμφορόν σοι εἶναι ποίησον, καὶ εἰ θέλεις ἀποστεῖλαι ἢ οὐ, σὺ ἂν εἰδείης. ἐρρῶσθαί σʼ εὔχομαι, κύριε ἄδελφε.

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
To my lord brother Abinnaeus, […] Chairemon. You do not do well in acting this way, but you run the risk of being arrested as a wrongdoer. You sent the soldiers under your command to Theoxenis and withdrew them, although so many wrongs had been done in the village. For you know that the house of Hatres was plundered, while he had so much property belonging to others on deposit; and there have been thefts of livestock, and you did not allow an inquiry into them to take place, but you snatched them away as if in lawlessness. By God, either send these men so that we may learn what was done by them, or all of us from the council will report about this to my lord the dux. For indeed the people from the hamlet of Ktesis have submitted written complaints against you both to me and to Atammon their praepositus. So then, do what you know to be in your interest, and whether you wish to send them or not, you will know best. I pray for your health, lord brother.

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Found at Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)

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