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p.oxy.27.2479 VIOxyrhynchos
Petition from a Colonus via HGV-meta
Petition of a tenant farmer to return to his estate and be excused dues. A petition from Pieous, a registered tenant farmer from the hamlet of Kinea, to his great landowner. After his animals died he left his farm for three years; he now asks to return to the estate and be excused from paying dues on land he did not sow, complaining that the estate steward seized his belongings. Written at Oxyrhynchus in the 6th century AD. machine translation
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- Petition from a Colonus HGV-meta OxyrhynchosVI
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Transcription
τῷ ἐμῷ ἀγαθῷ εὐεργέτῃ καὶ δεσπότῃ δέησις καὶ ἱκεσία
παρὰ Πιηοῦτος ὑμετέρου δούλου ἀπὸ ἐποικίου Κινέας.
τὸ φιλόπτωχον καὶ φιλόχριστον τῆς ὑμετέρας πανευκλεοῦς δεσποτείας
παρὰ πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν ἐξελθὸν πολλοὺς ταύτης προσφεύγειν αὐτῇ παρεσκεύασαν,
οἵτινες προσερχόμενοι τοῦ δικαίου καὶ πάσης ἐλεημοσύνης τυγχάνουσι.
ὅθεν κἀγὼ ὁ ἐλεεινὸς προσέρχομαι καταδακρύων καὶ διδάσκων κατὰ ἐμαυτὸν
ὡς γεωργὸς ἐναπόγραφος τυγχάνω τῆς ὑμετέρας πανευκλεοῦς δεσποτείας
καὶ ὡς πρὸ τριῶν τούτων ἐνιαυτῶν ἐτελεύτησαν τὰ ἐμὰ κτήνη καὶ ἀπέστην
τῆς ἐμῆς γεωργίας, ὡς εἴρηται, πρὸ τριῶν ἐνιαυτῶν καὶ ἔμεινα ἐπὶ ξένης.
καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν αὐτὸν τριέτη χρόνον παραμένων ἐπὶ ξένης ὅπως εὕρω
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παρακαλῶ καὶ ἱκετεύω τὴν ὑμετέραν πανευκλεῆ δεσποτείαν
ἵνα προστάξῃ εἰσελθεῖν με ἐν τῷ κτήματι καὶ μὴ ἀπαιτηθῆναί με
ὑπὲρ οὗ οὐκ ἔσπειρα ὅπως ἐφεξῆς δυνηθῶ ἐργάσασθαι
ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ κτήματι καὶ ἀποθρέψαι τὰ ἐμὰ ἄθλια τέκνα. καὶ ἀναπέμψω
τῷ δεσπότῃ Χριστῷ τὰς εὐχάς μου ὑπὲρ τῆς ζωῆς τῆς ὑμετέρας πανευκλεοῦς
δεσποτείας. ἀδυνάτως γὰρ ἔχω, δέσποτα, συντελέσαι ὑπὲρ οὗ
οὐ σπείρω. εἰσὶν γὰρ οἱ σπείροντες καὶ δυνάμενοι συντελέσαι.
καὶ τοῦτο δὲ διδάσκω ὡς ὅτι ἐλθὼν ἐν τῷ κτήματι ὁ προνοητὴς
διήρπαξεν πάντα τὰ εὐτελῆ μου πράγματα χάριν τῆς τοιαύτης
αἰτίας. καὶ παρακαλῶ τοῦ ὑμετέρου ἐλέους τυχεῖν. μάρτυρα γὰρ
ἐπικαλοῦμαι τὸν δεσπότην θεὸν ὡς ὅτι τὸ κλάσαι ἤτοι τὸ ξηρὸν
ψωμίον οὐκ ἔχω φαγεῖν μετὰ τῶν ἐμῶν τέκνων προκειμένης
ταύτης ἕνεκα τῆς εὐθενείας. καὶ τούτου χάριν κατέφυγα αὐτῇ
ὅπως ἐναριθμηθῆναί με μετὰ πάντων τῶν εὐεργετηθέντων
παρὰ αὐτῆς, πανευκλεέστατε εὐεργέτα, δέσποτα, κύριε.Translations (1)
To my good benefactor and master, entreaty and supplication from Pieous, your slave, from the hamlet of Kinea.
The love of the poor and love of Christ of your most glorious lordship, having gone out over all the land, have caused many to take refuge with it, who on approaching obtain justice and every mercy. Therefore I too, the wretched one, approach in tears, informing you about myself that I am a registered farmer (enapographos georgos) of your most glorious lordship, and that three years ago my animals died and I abandoned my farming, as has been said, three years ago, and stayed abroad. And remaining abroad for this same period of three years so that I might find […] sustenance and that I might be supported with my children […] of the estate […]
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I beg and beseech your most glorious lordship to order that I may enter the estate and that I not be required to pay for what I did not sow, so that henceforth I may be able to work on the same estate and support my wretched children. And I shall send up my prayers to the Lord Christ for the life of your most glorious lordship. For I am unable, master, to pay for what I do not sow. For there are those who sow and are able to pay. And I inform you of this too, that the steward (pronoetes) came to the estate and plundered all my paltry belongings on account of this matter. And I beg to obtain your mercy. For I call the Lord God as witness that I do not have a morsel or dry crust of bread to eat with my children, despite the present abundance. And for this reason I have fled for refuge to it (your lordship), so that I may be counted among all those who have received benefits from it, most glorious benefactor, master, lord.
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- TM-Text 36070 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;27;2479 tier-1
- HGV-Text 36070 tier-1
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