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p.oxy.12.1424 316 - 318Oxyrhynchites

Letter of a Centurio Princeps via HGV-meta

Letter of a centurion asking exemption of his farmer from a liturgy. A letter from the centurion Ammonios, holding the rank of princeps, to Heras, an official, asking him to release Ammonios's tenant farmer from a compulsory public service at the village of Dositheou (collecting tunics and cloaks) and to protect him from further nominations. It dates to AD 316-318 in the Oxyrhynchite nome. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ Ἡρᾷ Ἀμμώνιος ἑκατόνταρχος χαίρειν. Φ[…]…[…]ὁ ἀποδιδούς σοι τὰ παρʼ ἐμοῦ γράμματα γεωργός μου τυγχάνει. φησὶν προβεβλῆσθαι εἰς λειτουργίαν τῆς κώμης Δωσιθέου, τουτέστιν εἰς ἀπαίτησιν στιχαρίων καὶ παλλίων, μηδέπω δὲ ἐγκεχειρίσθαι τὴν ἀπαίτησιν. σπούδασον τοίνυν, ἄδελφε, τοῦτον ῥύσασθαι τοῦ λειτουργήματος, ἔτι δὲ καὶ δεξιῶς αὐτῷ προσσχεῖν τὰ μεγάλα μοι χαριζόμενος ἐν τούτῳ, ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ τοῦ λοιποῦ μὴ ἐπιτρέπειν τοῖς ἀπὸ τῆς κώμης ἀδικῆσαι αὐτὸν ἐν τοῖς ἄλλοις μηδʼ εἰς ἑτέρας λειτουργίας προβάλλεσθαι, ἀλλʼ ἵνα μοι μαρτυρήσῃ τὰ ὑπὸ τῆς ἀγαθῆς σου προαιρέσεως αὐτῷ ὑπαρχθέντα. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι πολλοῖς χρόνοις, κύριε ἄδελφε. [v] κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ Ἡρᾷ Ἀμμώνιος πρίγκιψ.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] To my lord brother Heras, Ammonios, centurion, greetings. Ph[…], the man who is delivering my letter to you, happens to be my farmer. He says that he has been nominated to a liturgy of the village of Dositheou, that is, to the collection of tunics and cloaks, but that the collection has not yet been entrusted to him. Make haste then, brother, to rescue him from the liturgy, and moreover to treat him kindly, doing me a great favour in this; and furthermore in future not to allow the villagers to wrong him in other matters or to nominate him to other liturgies, but so that he may testify to me of the things granted to him by your good disposition. I pray for your health for many years, lord brother. [verso] To my lord brother Heras, Ammonios, princeps.

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Found at Oxyrhynchites

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