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p.cair.isid.126 308 - 309 (?)Karanis (Arsinoites)

Letter to a Praepositus Pagi via HGV-meta

Letter of Herakleides, praepositus pagi, on returning fugitive villagers of Karanis. Herakleides, praepositus of the 5th pagus of the Arsinoite nome, writes to a fellow praepositus about an imperial order concerning strangers residing in villages and a payment of 5 folles to the treasury. Because the villagers of Karanis complained that some of their people are in his colleague's district, he asks him to force the villages there to hand them over, and offers to return any of the colleague's people found in his own district. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ[…]πραιποσίτῳ[…]πάγου Ἡρακλείδης πραιπόσιτος ε πάγου χαίρειν. καὶ σὺ αὐτός, ἄδελφε, οὐκ ἀγνοεῖς τὸ κελευσθὲν ὑπὸ τῆς θείας καὶ οὐρανίου αὐτῶν τύχης τῶν δεσποτῶν ἡμῶν βασιλέων πάντας τοὺς ξένους τοὺς εὑρισκομένους ἐν ταῖς κώμαις …ρισ[…]…υφες κατὰ ἀνδρεῖον λόγον πρὸ σεισμοῦ ἐπενεγκεῖν τῷ ἱερωτάτῳ ταμιείῳ πρὸς φόλλεις πέντε . ἐπειδὴ οἱ ἀπὸ κώμης Κερανίδος ἐνέτυχάν μοι ὡς ἀνθρώπων αὐτῶν ὄντων εἶναι ὑπὸ τῷ σῷ πάγῳ, ἔσπευσα οὖν δηλῶσαί σοι, ἄδελφε, ὅπως ἐπαναγκάσῃς τοὺς κωμήτας παραδοῦναι αὐτοῖς τοὺς ὁμοκωμήτας αὐτῶν ὅπου ἐὰν ὑποβαλοῦσιν, καὶ δηλώσῃς μοι τίνας αὐτοῖς παραδέδωκας. εἰ δέ τινες καὶ τοῦ σοῦ πάγου εἰσὶν παρʼ ἐμοί, ἀπόστειλον τοὺς …δεχομένους αὐτοὺς μετὰ τῶν σῶν γραμμάτων ἵνα οὕτως ἡ πᾶσα κέλευσις ἀποπληρωθῇ. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι, ἄδελφε, πολλοῖς χρόνοις εὐτυχοῦντα.

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
To my lord brother […], praepositus of the […] pagus, Herakleides, praepositus of the 5th pagus, greetings. You yourself, brother, are not unaware of what was ordered by the divine and heavenly fortune of our masters the emperors, that all the strangers found in the villages […] at the rate of each man (?) before the earthquake (?) are to bring to the most sacred treasury up to 5 folles. Since the people of the village of Karanis petitioned me that people of theirs are in your pagus, I hastened therefore to inform you, brother, so that you may compel the villagers to hand over to them their fellow villagers wherever they may point them out, and that you inform me whom you have handed over to them. And if any from your pagus are also with me, send those who will receive them with your letter, so that in this way the whole order may be fulfilled. I pray for your health, brother, prospering for many years.

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