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Petition for Relief from Consecutive Obligations via HGV-meta
Petition to the prefect for relief from repeated municipal obligations. Fragment of a petition to the prefect of Egypt from a man who had already served his month in a municipal office (apparently the agoranomia) in the previous year. Despite a council decree exempting him, he was forced to advance 1,000 drachmas to the cooks and to pay another 500 drachmas toward the costs of the current year's agoranomoi, and he asks the prefect to uphold the decree. machine translation
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Transcription
[…]μηδὲν παρασαλευθήσεσθαι τῶν τῆς βουλῆς
γραμμάτων, οὐδὲ τοῦτο συγκεχωρημένον ἐκ τῶν θείων
καὶ βασιλικῶν διατάξεων. τὸν μὲν οὖν πρῶτον μῆνα τῆς
ἀρχης τῷ διεληλυθότι β ἔτει ἀποδέδωκα ουδὲν ἐνδεήσας περὶ
τὰ τῇ ἀρχῇ διαφέροντα· δέον οὖν τῷ ἐνεστῶτι ἔτει μηδὲν
ἐνοχλεῖσθαί με ἀκολούθως τῷ γεγενημένῳ ψηφίσματι,
τοῖς μὲν μαγείροις ἠναγκάσθην εἰς προχρείας λόγον δοῦναι
δραχμὰς χιλίας · ἀλλʼ αὗται μὲν δηλονότι παρὰ τοῖς μαγείροις
ἀλλαχθήσονταί μοι εἰς τὸν τῆς ἀρχῆς καιρόν· χωρὶς δὲ τούτων οὐκ οἶδʼ ὅπως καὶ εἰς συντέλειαν τῶν τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ἔτους
ἀγορανόμων εἰσεπράχθην ἄλλας δραχμὰς πεντακοσίας .
τοῦ οὖν ψηφίσματος κατὰ βραχὺ παρακεινουμένου ἐξ οὗ μοι
ἀνέβαινεν ἔχειν περὶ ἐμαυτῷ χρηστὰς τὰς ἐλπίδας,
δέομαι, ἡγεμὼν δέσποτα, ἐπινεῦσαί σε βεβαίως τῇ δεήσει ταύτῃ
[…] ψήφισμα, ἢ πῶς ἐστι δ[…]αι τ[…]
[…]ὑπόσχεσιν διὰ τὴν ε[…]
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[…] that none of the written decisions of the council would be disturbed, nor is this permitted by the divine and imperial ordinances. Now, the first month of the office I discharged in the past 2nd year, falling short in nothing regarding the matters pertaining to the office; so, although it was proper that in the present year I should not be troubled at all, in accordance with the decree that was passed, I was compelled to give the cooks 1,000 drachmas by way of advance payment. But these, clearly, will be exchanged back to me by the cooks at the time of the office; apart from these, however, I do not know how, I was also exacted another 500 drachmas for the contribution of the agoranomoi of the present year.
Since, then, the decree, on the basis of which it occurred to me to hold good hopes for myself, is being little by little set aside, I beg you, my lord prefect, to assent firmly to this petition […] decree, or how it is […]
[…] promise on account of the […]
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