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Rescript of Severus Alexander via HGV-meta
Rescript of Severus Alexander to the league of Bithynia on appeals. A copy of a rescript (imperial reply) of the emperor Severus Alexander to the provincial league of the Greeks in Bithynia, concerning the right of appeal and forbidding governors and others from using force against those who appeal; capital cases are to be referred to the emperor. The copy notes it was entered in the records of the prefect of Egypt on Mesore 18, and was found at Oxyrhynchus. machine translation
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Transcription
Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ θεοῦ Σεουήρου Εὐσεβοῦς
θεοῦ Ἀντωνίνου Εὐσεβοῦς Μεγίστου υἱοῦ υἱὸς
Μάρκος Αὐρήλιος Σεουῆρος Ἀλέξανδρος ἀρχιερεὺς
δημαρχικῆς ἐξουσίας ὕπατος πατὴρ πατρίδος
τῷ κοινῷ τῶν ἐν Βειθυνίᾳ Ἑλλήνων χαίρειν.
ἐκκαλεῖσθαι μὲν π[…]ν τίς κωλύει τὸ ὑπὸ …[…]
οὐχ ὁρῶ ὅτε ἐξ…[…]ν…ι[…] ἐπιτραπ[…]
ποιεῖν καὶ θᾶττόν ποτε πρὸς τόδε ἀφικνεῖται ὥστε
βίᾳ χρῆσθαι πρὸς τοὺς ἐκκαλουμένους καὶ …[…]…[…]
τικη[…]ν καὶ ἁπλῶς […]
τὴν δεῦρο […]ν ἀπαγορευ[…]τοῖς
ἡγουμένοις τῶν ἐθνῶν καὶ π…[…]
προρρήσει, εἰδότες ὅτι[…]ς…[…]
μένων ἐλευθερι[…]
τοὺς μέντοι ἐκ κεφαλικῆς δίκης[…]ντας εἰ μὴ προσδεχθείη αὐτῶν […]
…εισα διασφαλίσασθαι μὴ δυνηθ…[…]
δίκης πρὸς ἐμὲ δεῖν ἀποσταλῆναι.[…]
ἀνελήμφθη ὑπομνήμασιτοῦ τῆς Αἰγύπτου
διασημότατα ἡγεμονεύοντος ἔτους τετάρτου
Μεσορὴ ιη.Translations (1)
Imperator Caesar, son of the deified Severus Pius, grandson of the deified Antoninus Pius Maximus, Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander, pontifex maximus, holding tribunician power, consul, father of his country, to the league of the Hellenes in Bithynia, greetings.
That one may appeal [...] who prevents what by [...]
I do not see, when from [...] entrusted (?) [...]
to do, and sooner or later it comes to this, that
force is used against those who appeal and [...]
[...] and simply [...]
the [...] to here [...] forbidden (?) [to the]
governors of the provinces and [...]
by proclamation, knowing that [...]
[...] free (?) [...]
Those, however, who [...] from a capital case, unless their [...] should be accepted [...]
[...] to give security, not being able [...]
[...] of the case must be sent to me. [...]
It was entered in the records of [the] most illustrious [prefect of Egypt, in the fourth year (?)],
Mesore 18.
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 61407 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;17;2104 tier-1
- HGV-Text 61407 tier-1
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