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p.lips.1.44 324 - 337Hermopolites (?)
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Imperial rescript on immunities of athletes and stage performers. A copy of imperial pronouncements on the privileges of athletes and performers, including a Latin rescript of Diocletian and his co-rulers to the guild of athletes and stage performers granting exemption from personal civic duties to those who won at least three crowns in major contests. It is preceded by a Greek and Latin passage under Constantine and his Caesars confirming such privileges for a protégé, probably from the Hermopolite nome, AD 324-337. machine translation
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- chla.12.526 DDbDP-text Hermopolites (?)324 - 337
- chrest.mitt.381 DDbDP-text Hermopolites (?)324 - 337
- Kaiserliches Reskript HGV-meta Hermopolites (?)324 - 337
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r,1]
[…]…[…]…[…]…[…]έχομεν τὰς ἀποφάσεις
[…]… τὸν θεῖον ὅρκον τοῦ τὰ πάντα νικῶντος βασιλέως
Κωνσταντίνου αἰωνίου Σεβαστοῦ καὶ Κωνσταντίνου καὶ Κωνσταντίου τῶν Ἐπιφανεστάτων Καισάρων ἀπαγορεύεσθαι[…] …[…]…ων ἡμῶν ἀκοῦσαι καὶ προστάξαι αὐτὸν
[…] μηδὲ γοῦν ἐνοχλεῖσθαι προνοουμένης τῆς τάξεως.
[…]…u…[…]…se u…[…]tot sunt privilegia quae recitare
[…]do…[…]set id[…]…[…] utetur susceptus tuus.
Leonti …[…] vivas in Deo aeterno
Ateni vivas in Deo aeterno
[r,2rp]
impperatores Diocletianus et Maximianus Auggusti
et Constantius et Maximianus nobbilissimi Caessares
ad synodum xysticorum et thymelicorum. et ibidem: familiare nobis, praerogativas integras inlibatas servare quas divorum
parentium Auggustorum constitutiones in suis quibusque concedunt.
sed ne sub specie coronarum declinandi munera civilia potestas omnibus detur,
ideo ad preces vestras dato rescripto declaramus eisdem a muneribus civilibus
personalibus immunitatem iure competere qui cum per omne tempus aetatis
suae certaminibus adfuisse non nova corruptela et subscriptione interveniente non minus quam tres coronas certaminis nobilis retulerint
in quibus vel urbicae victoriae vel antiquae Graeciae vel ex nutunostro
comoediam vel certamine constituram no[…]a[…]…nec et[…]
quae species privilegii intra personam eorum quorum i…[…] non huiusmodi
beneficio remunerare placuit const necuit ut iustius persuasum
habeant a[…]…o…[…]…a…[…]… huiusmodi persona […]…[…]…
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[r,3rp]
nisi haec persona sub aemula professione parentium privilegi speciem in se provocaverit.
[v]
haec sententia ubicumque servabitur.
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…Translations (1)
[recto, column 1]
[…] we have the decisions
[…] the divine oath of the all-conquering emperor [Constantine, eternal Augustus, and of Constantine and Constan]tius the most illustrious Caesars, that it be forbidden […] our […] to hear and to order him
[…] nor at any rate to be troubled, the office taking care.
[…] so many are the privileges which to recite
[…] your protégé will make use of.
Leontius […] may you live in eternal God
Aten(i)us (?), may you live in eternal God
[recto, column 2]
The Emperors Diocletian and Maximian, Augusti, and Constantius and Maximian, most noble Caesars, to the guild of athletes and stage performers. And in the same place: It is our custom to preserve whole and unimpaired the prerogatives which the constitutions of our deified parents the Augusti grant to each in their own case. But lest under pretext of crowns the power of evading civic duties be given to all, therefore, by rescript given in response to your petitions, we declare that immunity from personal civic duties rightly belongs to those who, having taken part in contests throughout the whole time of their life, without recent corruption or the intervention of bribery (?), have won no fewer than three crowns in a notable contest, in which either victories in the City or in ancient Greece or by our consent […] comedy or contest established […] which form of privilege within the person of those whose […] it was not resolved to reward with a benefit of this kind […] so that they may be more justly persuaded […] a person of this kind […]
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[recto, column 3]
unless this person, under the rival profession of his parents, has claimed for himself the form of privilege.
[verso]
[This] decision [will be observed] everywhere.
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Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 22353 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.lips;1;44 tier-1
- HGV-Text 22353 tier-1
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