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p.oxy.20.2267 360Oxyrhynchos

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Protest of a former procurator of imperial estates against the catholicus Diodotos. A formal protest from Oxyrhynchus in AD 360 by Flavius Herak(…), former procurator of the imperial estates in the Oxyrhynchite and Upper Kynopolite nomes. He claims he administered the estates honestly but that Diodotos, former catholicus, falsely accused him of overcharging villages, had his property confiscated, and pocketed 60 solidi supposedly meant for the farmers. machine translation

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Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] ὑπατείας τῶν δεσποτῶν ἡμῶν Κωνσταντίου Αὐγούστου τὸ ι καὶ Ἰουλιανοῦ τοῦ ἐπιφανεστάτου Καίσαρος τὸ γ[…] ἐν τῇ λαμπρᾷ καὶ λαμπροτάτῃ Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλει. δεόμενος μαρτύρομαι Φλαούιος Ἡρακ καὶ ὡς χρηματίζων γενόμενος ἐπίτροπος τῶν δεσποτικῶν κτήσεων νομοῦ Ὀξυρυγχίτου καὶ Κυνοπολίτου Ἄνω τὴν πίστιν τὴν ἐνχειρισθεῖσαν μοι τῶν δεσποτικῶν κτήσεων ἐν τῷ χρόνῳ, ᾧ ἐπετράπην διοικῆσαι, μετὰ τῆς συνήθους εὐλαβείας ἡμετέρας καὶ τοῦ ὀφειλομένου φόβου ἐπὶ σου ἀποσῶσαι ἐφʼ ἑκάστης ἰνδικτίονος τῷ δεσποτικῷ λόγῳ τὸ ἱκανὸν ποιήσας ἀμέμπτως. ἡ Διοδότου δὲ τοῦ γενομένου καθολικοῦ τῶν δεσποτικῶν πραγμάτων γενομένη σκευωρία φιλοχρηματίας ἕνεκα ἰδίας ἑαυτοῦ καὶ αἰσχροκερδίας δηλοῦντος παρʼ ἐμοῦ σεισμοὺς ἐργάσασθαι τοιαύτη γεγένηται ὥστε ἐκ τῆς συκοφαντίας αὐτοῦ παθεῖν με δήμευσιν καὶ θλίψιν καὶ τὰ διποσταλι…α ἠλλοτρίασεν τὰ τῆς φιλανθρωπίας τῆς αἰωνίου βασιλείας τῶν δεσποτῶν τῆς οἰκουμένης τῶν εὐσεβεστάτων βασιλέων. ἐν γὰρ τοῖς τόποις τούτοις γενόμενος ὁ αὐτὸς Διόδοτος συνεσκευάσατό μοι ὡς ἐμοῦ ἐκτὸς τοῦ κανόνος ἀπῃτηκότος παρὰ κωμῶν διὰ τοῦ Κυνοπολίτου τρισχιλίας διακοσίας μυριάδας καὶ ἰδίᾳ ἑαυτοῦ βουλήσει τυποῖ ὑπὲρ ἀρουρῶν ὀκτακοσίων …[…]… κων ἑκάστης ἀρούρας μυριάδας δ δεῖν τὴν ἀπαίτησιν παρʼ ἐμοῦ γενέσθαι καὶ ἀπαιτῶν ὑπὲρ τούτων τῶν ἀργυρίων χρυσίνους ξ σχηματιζόμενος τοῖς ἀγροίκοις δώσειν κατέχει μὲν παρʼ ἑαυτῷ καὶ εἰς τὸ ἴδιον ἀποφέρεται οὐκ ἐπιτρέψας τὰς οὔσας μοι ἀποδοῦναι τοῖς ἀγροίκοις … χωρὶς ενεπιτην ε[…]…κ…ε[…]υ κι…νκ…σκ……ιτης Ὀξυρυγχίτου καὶ …ας…… ἑκάστου στο……ματα ζητοῦντος [… 12 lines lost …] […]…ο ἐκομίσθη καὶ ἀνηνέχθη διὰ ἀναφορᾶς πρὸς τὸν αὐτὸν …διον…[…] […]… Εὐάγριος ὁ λαμπρότατος κόμης τῶν δεσποτικῶν τὴν διοίκησιν …ε[…] […] πραχθέντων ὑπομνημάτων γνω[…]…αυτ…νατ[…] [… ? lines lost …] [v] [… 6 lines lost …]

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] In the consulship of our masters Constantius Augustus for the 10th time and Julian the most illustrious Caesar for the 3rd time, […] In the glorious and most glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites. Making request, I, Flavius Herak(…), also styled former procurator of the imperial estates of the Oxyrhynchite and Upper Kynopolite nome, declare before witness that the trust committed to me over the imperial estates during the time when I was entrusted with their administration, with our customary scrupulousness and due fear, I preserved before you, in each indiction satisfying the imperial account blamelessly. But the intrigue of Diodotos, former catholicus of the imperial affairs, carried out for the sake of his own love of money and greed for base gain, he making it plain that he would work extortions from me, has been such that through his false accusation I suffered confiscation and distress, and the […] he alienated the benefits of the philanthropy of the eternal reign of the masters of the world, the most pious emperors. For this same Diodotos, having come to these parts, contrived against me the charge that I had exacted beyond the canon from villages throughout the Kynopolite 3,200 myriads (of denarii), and on his own will he lays down that for 800 arouras […] at 4 myriads for each aroura the exaction should be made from me; and demanding for these sums of silver 60 solidi, pretending that he would give them to the country people, he keeps them with himself and carries them off for his own use, not allowing me to restore what I had to the country people […] apart from […] […] of the Oxyrhynchite and […] of each […] seeking […] [… 12 lines lost …] […] was brought and referred by report to the same […] […] Evagrios, the most glorious comes of the imperial (estates), the administration […] […] of the minutes of proceedings […] [… lines lost …] [verso] [… 6 lines lost …]

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