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p.cair.isid.78 30. Jan. 324Karanis (Arsinoites)

Petition to a Praepositus Pagi via HGV-meta

Petition to a praepositus pagi about crops destroyed by grazing animals. A petition from Isidoros son of Ptolemaios of Karanis to Dioskoros, praepositus of the fifth pagus, complaining that animals completely ate the 7 arouras of wheat he had managed to sow out of his 80 arouras. Citing higher orders that trespassing animals be sold publicly and the owner compensated, he asks the official to summon the public officers responsible and act according to the law. It was written at Karanis in January 324. machine translation

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Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

Διοσκόρῳ πραιποσίτῳ ε πάγου παρὰ Ἰσιδώρου Πτολεμαίου ἀπὸ κώμης Καρανίδος τοῦ ὑπὸ σὲ πάγου. οἶδας μὲν καὶ αὐτός, πραιποσίτων ἄριστε, πολλάκις τῶν μειζόνων φοιτήσαντα γράμματα εἴ που φανείη ζῷα σπόρον λυμαίνοντα ταῦτα μὲν δημοσίᾳ πιπράσκεσθαι καὶ τὴν τιμὴν τῷ πολιτικῷ λόγῳ χωρεῖν, τὸ δὲ ἀζήμιον τῶν παραπολομένων τῷ δεσπότῃ περισῴζεσθαι. ἐπεὶ τοίνυν κατέσπειρα μετὰ πολλῶν καμάτων μόνας ἀρούρας ἑπτὰ ἐν σίτῳ ἀπὸ ἀρουρῶν ὀγδοήκοντα , ταύτας δὲ τέλειον κατεβρώθη ὑπὸ τετραπόδων, καὶ τῆς παραστάσεως τῶν αἰτίων τοῖς δημοσίοις διαφερούσης, τάδε σοι τὰ ἔνγραφα ἐπιδίδωμι ὅπως τούτους μετακαλεσάμενος ἐπὶ σοῦ τὰ τοῖς νόμοις ἀκόλουθα πράξῃς ἵνα μὴ διʼ αὐτοὺς φυγῇ χρήσωμαι. διευτύχει. τοῖς ἐσομένοις ὑπάτοις τὸ δ Μεχὶρ δ. Ἰσίδωρος ἐπιδέδωκα. Παῦλος ἔγραψα ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ ἀγραμμάτου.

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
To Dioskoros, praepositus of the 5th pagus, from Isidoros son of Ptolemaios, from the village of Karanis in the pagus under you. You yourself know, best of praepositi, that letters have often come from the higher authorities ordering that if animals should appear anywhere damaging the crops, these are to be sold publicly and the price credited to the municipal account, while the owner is to be kept free of loss for what has been destroyed. Since, then, with much toil I sowed only 7 arouras with wheat out of 80 arouras, and these have been completely eaten up by quadrupeds, and since the production of those responsible is the concern of the public officials, I submit this written petition to you so that you may summon them before you and do what accords with the laws, so that I may not be forced to flee because of them. Farewell. Under the consuls to be designated, for the 4th time, Mecheir 4. I, Isidoros, have submitted this. I, Paulos, wrote on his behalf since he is illiterate.

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