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p.enteux.66 13. Jan. 218 v.Chr.Magdola (Arsinoites)
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Petition of Maron against Theodosios over division of a plot at Autodike. A petition to King Ptolemy IV from Maron, an Argive, against Theodosios, a Lycian, who had jointly leased a plot at Autodike with Maron's late son and then took the best part, leaving Maron a narrow, useless strip. Maron asks that the plot be divided fairly, a door moved, and an access way granted to the common road; the strategos's note instructs the epistates to reconcile the parties or refer them to court. machine translation
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Transcription
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βασιλεῖ Πτολεμαίωι χαίρειν Μάρων Εὔκτου, Ἀργεῖος τῆς ἐπιγονῆς. ἀδικοῦμαι ὑπὸ Θεοδοσίου τοῦ Ξανθοῦ, Λυκίου τῆς ἐπιγονῆς. τοῦ γὰρ υἱοῦ μου Εὔκτου μισθωσαμένου μετʼ αὐτοῦ κοινῆι τόπον ψιλὸν ἐν Αὐτοδίκηι εἰς τὰ ϙθ ἔτη παρʼ Ἀρτέμωνος καὶ
ἀπογενομένου πρὶν ἢ διελέσθαι τὸν κοινὸν τόπον, ἐπιβὰς ὁ Θεοδόσιος ᾠκοδόμησεν ἑαυτῶι τοίχους οἰκήσεως,
ἐγλεξάμενος τὸν βέλτιστον τόπον καὶ ἐξώτατον· μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα, διαιρέσεως γενομένης καὶ συγγραφῆς τεθείσης διῃρῆσθαι ἴσως καὶ ὁμοίως, οὐ διῄρηταί μοι δικαίως, ἀλλὰ παραλελόγισταί με καὶ τόπον
τινά μοι ἀχρεῖον καὶ στενὸν ἐπὶ μῆκος δέδωκεν, αὐτὸς δὲ ἐν τετραγωνισμῶι τὰ αὑτοῦ ἔχει. δέομαι οὖν σου,
βασιλεῦ, εἴ σοι δοκεῖ, προστάξαι Διοφάνει τῶι στρατηγῶι γράψαι Πυθιάδει τῶι ἐπιστάτηι ἐπελθόντα
ἐπὶ τὸν τόπον διελεῖν μοι ἴσως καὶ ὁμοίως, καὶ τὴν θύραν ἣν ᾠκοδόμηκεν ἐν τῶι ἐμῶι μέρει, ἡμιτέλεστον
ἐπαναγκάσαι αὐτὸν εἰς τὸ αὑτοῦ μέρος ἀποστρέψαι, ἐπιβεβηκότα τέ μοι πήχεις ἑβδομήκοντα κατʼ
ἐμβαδὸν δοθῆναί μοι ἀντʼ αὐτῶν εἴσοδον καὶ ἔξοδον ἕως ἐπὶ τὴν κοινὴν ἡμῶν ὁδόν, διὰ τὸ ἐσώτερὸν με ἀπερρίφθαι. τούτου γὰρ γενομένου, διὰ σέ, βασιλεῦ, ἔσομαι τοῦ δικαίου τετευχώς.
εὐτύχει.
Πυθιάδει. μάλιστα διάλυσον αὐτούς· εἰ δὲ μή ἀπόστειλον πρὸς ἡμᾶς ἐκ τῆς ι τοῦ Χοίαχ ὅπως ἐπὶ τοῦ καθήκοντος
δικαστηρίου διακριθῶσιν. ἔτους δ, Δαισίου κζ, Ἁθὺρ κθ
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ἔτους δ, Δαισίου κζ, Ἁθὺρ κθ.
Μάρων Εὔκτου πρὸς Θεοδόσιον
περὶ εἰσόδου καὶ ἐξόδου.Translations (1)
[recto]
To King Ptolemy, greetings from Maron son of Euktes, Argive of the epigone. I am wronged by Theodosios son of Xanthos, Lycian of the epigone. For when my son Euktes had leased jointly with him a vacant plot in Autodike for 99 years from Artemon, and
died before the joint plot was divided, Theodosios entered on it and built for himself the walls of a dwelling,
having picked out the best and outermost part; and after this, when a division took place and a contract was drawn up that it had been divided fairly and equally, it was not divided justly for me, but he cheated me and
gave me a useless plot, narrow and lengthwise, while he himself holds his own share in a square. I therefore beg you,
O King, if it please you, to order Diophanes the strategos to write to Pythiades the epistates to go
to the plot and divide it for me fairly and equally, and to compel him to turn the door, half-finished, which he has built in my part
around into his own part; and since he has encroached on 70 cubits of my area,
that in return for them I be given an entrance and exit as far as our common road, because I have been thrust further inside. For if this is done, through you, O King, I shall have obtained justice.
Farewell.
To Pythiades. Preferably reconcile them; if not, send them to us from the 10th of Choiak so that they may be judged before the appropriate court. Year 4, Daisios 27, Hathyr 29.
[verso]
Year 4, Daisios 27, Hathyr 29.
Maron son of Euktes against Theodosios
concerning entrance and exit.
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- TM-Text 3341 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.enteux;;66 tier-1
- HGV-Text 3341 tier-1
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