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p.bagnall.27 Hermopolis

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Petition of the quaestionarius Victor against the nyktostrategos of Hermopolis. Petition from Victor, a quaestionarius on the governor's staff, to the governor Simplicius. Sent to Hermopolis to bring certain persons before the court, he complains that Kyros, the city's night-police chief, refused to hand them over, insulted and beat him, and he asks that help be sent and the offenders and witnesses be brought in. machine translation

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Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[…]ειῳ Σιμπλικίῳ τῷ λαμπροτάτῳ ἡγεμόνι παρὰ Οὐίκτορος κυεστωναρίου τῆς σῆς τοῦ ἐμοῦ κυρίου τάξεως τῶν ἀπο…[…]…[…]μένων κατὰ τῶν νόμων …[…]συ[…]ερη[…]ασεπι[…] […]… εἰς τὴν ὑπηρεσίαν τοῦ δικαστηρίου καὶ πρὸς ταύτην ἀφηνιαζόντων ἐπὶ τῆς τηλικαύτης ἀρχῆς· ἐγὼ γὰρ Οὐίκτωρ τὴν προσηγορίαν […] […] παρὰ τῆς τάξεως τῶν κομμέντων ἀποσταλεὶς ἐπὶ τὴν τῶν Ἑρμοπολιτῶν προσώπων τινῶν τὴν παράστασιν ποιήσασθαι […]μοι ὑπὸ Κύρου τοῦ νυκτοστρατήγου τῆς προειρημένης πόλεως ὥστε ἐμέ, ἐπ’ ἀλλοδαπῆς διάγοντα, τὴν τούτου ἔφοδον ο[…] […]τον καταναγκάζειν τὰ κατεντευχθέντα μοι πρόσωπα παραδοῦναι, ἧττον ἐφρόντισεν τοῦ σοῦ μεγέθους καὶ τῆς τάξεως […] […] καὶ τὸν ἀδελφὸν ὕβρεις συνεχεῖς καὶ διὰ τῶν χειρῶν πληγάς μοι ἐπήνεγκεν ἐπεγγελῶν τοῖς προστεταγμένοις ὑπὸ τῆς σῆς ἀρετῆς […] κατεντευχθεῖσιν· ἐγὼ τοίνυν πρὸς τἆλλα τοιαῦτα παθὼν καὶ οὐδεμίαν βοήθειαν ἔχων, πολλοὺς τοὺς παρόντας ἐμαρτυράμην …[…] […]… γενομένη μοι βία….υ[…]…ρετοῦντι τῇ σῇ ἀρετῇ, παρακαλῶν προστάξαι τῇ αὐτῇ τάξει βοήθειαν ἀποστεῖλαι ἐπὶ τὴν Ἑρμουπολιτῶν […] τὸν ταῦτα κατ’ ἐμοῦ τολμήσαντα καὶ τὸν τούτου πατέρα καὶ τὸν ἀδελφὸν καὶ τοὺς μαρτυρεῖν δυναμένους, ἡγεμὼν κύριε. […] εἰσὶ δέ· […]εριος ἀρχέφοδος […]…εριος ὀνηλάτης ὑπατείας Φλαουίων Καισαρίου καὶ Ἀττικοῦ τῶν λαμπροτάτων … Οὐίκτωρ κυεστωνάριος […]…ω κύριέ μου.

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
To […]eius Simplicius, the most illustrious [governor], [from Victor, quaestionarius] of the officium of your lordship, [concerning those who …] against the laws […] […] to the service of the court and rebelling against it under so great a magistracy. For I, Victor by name, […] […] having been sent by the officium of the commentarienses to Hermopolis [to effect] the production of certain persons […] to me by Kyros the nyktostrategos of the aforesaid city, so that I, being in a foreign place, […] his attack […] […] to compel him to hand over the persons against whom I had been petitioned, he showed less regard for your greatness and for the officium […] […] and his brother, he inflicted continual insults and blows with his hands upon me, mocking the orders given by [your excellency] […] to those against whom petition had been made. I, then, having suffered these and other such things and having no help, called many of those present to witness […] […] the violence done to me […] to your excellency, begging you to order the same officium to send assistance to Hermopolis […] the one who dared these things against me, and his father and his brother and those able to bear witness, my lord governor. [They are:] […]erios, archephodos […]erios, donkey-driver [In the consulship of Flavius Caesarius and Atticus], the most illustrious. […] Victor, quaestionarius, […] my lord.

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