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p.lond.7.2039 Mitte III v.Chr.
Petition of Menandros against the cleruch Dionysodoros over a house plot. A petition to King Ptolemy from Menandros, a man of the Epigone, complaining that the cleruch Dionysodoros twice drove him by force out of houses he had built on a deserted plot assigned to him by the billeting officer Petosiris. Dionysodoros claimed to hold the whole plot from Zenon; Menandros asks the king to hear his case. machine translation
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βασιλεῖ Πτολεμαίωι χαίρειν Μένανδρος τῆς ἐπιγονῆς. ἀδικοῦμαι ὑπὸ Διονυσοδώρου τῶν κληρούχων. αἰτησαμένου γάρ μου
τόπον ἔρημον Πετοσῖριν τὸν σταθμοδότην κατωικοδόμησα
ἐμαυτῶι οἰκίαν. προσελθόντος δέ μοι καὶ ἀξιώσαντος Διονυσοδώρου
ἀντὶ ἐνοικίου δραχμὰς β εἰς ἐνιαυτόν, ἄχρι ἤμην ἐν ἀγρῶι παρὰ Ἀμβιλάωι
…ων αὐτῶι τὸν κλῆρον, κατωικοδόμει μοι τὴν οἰκίαν
κύκλωι καταγνούς μου τὴν ἐρημίαν τύπτων ἐγβάλλει . ἐπεὶ δʼ ἐπέσχον, οὐκ ἔχων τὸν παραστησόμενόν μοι, ἄλλην οἰκίαν ὠικοδόμησα ἐμαυτῶι,
αὐτὸς ἐγβάλλει με τύπτων καὶ ἀπὸ ταύτης φάμενος παρὰ Ζήνωνος ἔχειν τὸν
τόπον ἅπαντα, ἐν τῆι κρίσει εἰσ…όμενος πρός με ἐπὶ Νέστου. δέομαι οὖν
σου, εἰ καί σοι δοκεῖ, διακοῦσαί μου ἵνα μὴ καταδυναστευθῶ ὑπὸ Διονυσοδώρου.
εὐτύχει.Translations (1)
To King Ptolemy, greeting, from Menandros of the Epigone. I am wronged by Dionysodoros, one of the cleruchs. For having requested a deserted plot from Petosiris the billeting officer, I built myself a house on it. Dionysodoros came to me and demanded 2 drachmas a year as rent; while I was in the country with Ambilaos […] the allotment for him, he built all around my house, and, despising my lack of support, he drives me out with blows. When I stopped (?), having no one to stand by me, I built myself another house, and he himself drives me out of this one too with blows, saying that he holds the whole plot from Zenon, [going] (?) to court against me before Nestos. I beg you therefore, if it please you, to hear my case, so that I may not be oppressed by Dionysodoros.
Farewell.
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- DDbDP-Text p.lond;7;2039 tier-1
- HGV-Text 1601 tier-1
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