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p.oxy.16.1885 29. Nov. 509Oxyrhynchos

Petition to a Defensor via HGV-meta

Petition to the defensor about an assault on a man in a ferry-boat. A petition to Flavius Hermias, advocate and defensor of Oxyrhynchus, reporting that a man named Sourous was struck a near-fatal blow on the head in a ferry-boat. The petitioner asks that the victim be inspected by the public tabularius and the riparii (police officials), that the governor be informed, and that he receive the official report. Written at Oxyrhynchus on 29 November 509. machine translation

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[Fr1] Φλαουίῳ Ἑρμίᾳ τῷ ἐλλογιμωτάτῳ σχολαστικῷ καὶ ἐκδίκῳ τῆς Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως παρὰ[…]… Θεοφίλου[…] ποιουμένου[…] […]η…αικ[…]……[…] [… ? lines lost …] […]…ς…[…]…[…]…[…] […]…εν τῷ φ…[…]…ημα δὲ τ…[…] […] ταύτης τῆς λαμπρᾶς πόλεως […] […]…οντι καὶ ταύτην τὴν ἐργασίαν ποιουμένῳ προσήκοντι τῷ […]…[…] κατὰ τῆς κεφαλῆς κόψας ἀφειδῶς καὶ θανατηφόρον ἐπενεγκὼν κατʼ αὐτοῦ πληγὴν ἔβαλεν ὡς εἶχεν ἐν τῷ πορθμίῳ, τῇ μὲν προθέσει τοῦτον ἀνελών, ὥσπερ ἡ παρʼ αὐτοῦ ἐπενεχθεῖσα μαρτυρήσει πληγή, τῇ δὲ τύχῃ τὸ ζῆν αὐτὸν καταπράξας πως, ἐπὶ οὖν ἀμφίβολον ἔτι τὸ ζῆν ἔχει. παρακαλῶ τὴν σὴν ἐλλογιμότητα πρῶτόν γε πάντων ἐπιθεωρῆσαι Σουροῦς, εἶθʼ οὕτω κελεῦσαι τόν τε δημόσιον ταβουλάριον […] καὶ τοὺς ῥιπαρίους ταύτης τῆς λαμπρᾶς πόλεως καὶ αὐτοὺς αὐτοὺς ἐπιθεωρῆσαι τὸν σχεδὸν φονευθέντα Σουροῦς ὅπως τε ἔχει καὶ τὴν ἐπενεχθεῖσαν αὐτῷ πληγήν, καὶ ταῦτα γνώριμα καταστῆσαι τὴν ὑμετέραν ἐλλογιμότητα τῷ τὰ πάντα μεγαλοπρεπεστάτῳ καὶ σοφωτάτῳ κοινῷ ἡμῶν ἄρχοντι πρὸς τῶν γεγενημένων ἐκδίκησιν, κελεῦσαι δὲ καὶ τὸ περὶ τούτου ἐκσφράγισμα δοθῆναί μοι κατὰ τὸ ἔθος παρὰ τοῦ δημοσίου ταβουλαρίου, κύριέ μου λογιώτατε ἔκδικε. […] Θεόφιλος δ…[…]… τῷ ἐνδόξῳ οἴκῳ ἐπιδέδωκα. † ὑπατείας Φλαουίου Ὀππορτούνου τοῦ λαμπροτάτου Χοίακ γ. † [Fr2] [… ? lines lost …] […]…[…] […]οντι[…] […]ηοι…[…] [… ? lines lost …]

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[Fragment 1] To Flavius Hermias, the most eloquent advocate and defensor of the city of the Oxyrhynchites, from […] son of Theophilos […] carrying on […] […] [… lines lost …] […] […] in the […] but […] […] of this splendid city […] […] to Sourous (?), who also carries on this work, belonging to the […] striking him on the head unsparingly and inflicting upon him a deadly blow, he struck him as he was in the ferry-boat, by his intention killing him, as the blow inflicted by him will testify, but by fortune having somehow left him alive; he is therefore still in doubt of his life. I beseech your eloquence first of all to inspect Sourous, and then to order the public tabularius […] and the riparii of this splendid city themselves to inspect the almost murdered Sourous, his condition and the blow inflicted on him, and that your eloquence make these things known to our common governor, magnificent and most wise in all things, for the punishment of what has happened; and to order also that the sealed report concerning this be given to me according to custom by the public tabularius, my lord most learned defensor. […] I, Theophilos (?) […] of the glorious house, have submitted this. † In the consulship of Flavius Opportunus, vir clarissimus, Choiak 3. † [Fragment 2] [… lines lost …] […] […] […] [… lines lost …]

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