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p.oxy.3.487 14. Dez. 156Oxyrhynchos

Petition to the Epistrategus via HGV-meta

Petition to the epistrategos for release from a guardianship. Petition from Nikias son of Harpalos of Oxyrhynchus to the epistrategos Statilius Maximus, asking to be released from a guardianship of the minor sons of Dionysios son of Dorion to which the city secretary Serenos had nominated him. He argues that he is unrelated to the children, that they have relatives able to serve, and that liturgies have left him in debt; it is dated December AD 156. machine translation

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Transcription

Στατιλίῳ Μαξίμῳ τῷ κρατίστωι ἐπιστρατήγῳ παρὰ Νικίου Ἁρπάλου ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως. ὁ τῆς πόλεως γραμματεὺς Σερῆνος εἰσέδωκέ με εἰς ἐπιτροπὴν ἀφηλίκων υἱῶν Διονυσίου Δωρίωνος ὄντων ὡς ἐτῶν εἴκοσι πέντε καὶ μηδένα πρὸς γένους ἐκ πατρὸς ἢ μητρὸς αὐτῶν ἄλλοτε ἐχόντων τοὺς ἐκ τῆς συγγενείας αὐτῶν δυναμένους τὰ τῆς ἐπιτροπῆς αὐτῶν διοικῆσαι. ἐμοῦ τε καταβαρηθέντος ἐν ταῖς λειτουργίαις καὶ χρεώστου γενομένου δέομαι, κύριε, ἐὰν σοῦ τῇ τύχῃ δόξῃ, κελεῦσαι τῷ στρατηγῷ ἐπαναγκάσαι τὸν γραμματέα τῆς πόλεως ἄλλον ἀντʼ ἐμοῦ κατασταθῆναι τῇ τῶν ἀφηλίκων ἐπιτροπῇ ὅπως δυνηθῶ τῇ γεωργίᾳ μου προσευκαιρεῖν πρὸς τὸ δύνασθαί με καὶ τὰ ἐκ τῆς χρείας ἐν ἐμοὶ ὀφλήματα ἀποδοῦναι καὶ μὴ μεταναστήσῃς με τῶν ἰδίων τῆς ἰδίας ἵνʼ ὦ εὐεργετημένος. διευτύχει. ἔτους εἰκοστοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τίτου Αἰλίου Ἁδριανοῦ Ἀντωνίνου Σεβαστοῦ Εὐσεβοῦς μηνὸς Ἁδριανοῦ ιη. Νικίας Ἁρπάλου ἐπιδέδωκα.

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
To Statilius Maximus, the most excellent epistrategos, from Nikias son of Harpalos, of the city of Oxyrhynchus. The city secretary Serenos nominated me to the guardianship of the minor sons of Dionysios son of Dorion, although I am about 25 years old, and although I have no connection by kinship on their father's or mother's side, while they have others among their relatives who are able to manage the affairs of their guardianship. Since I have been weighed down by liturgies and have fallen into debt, I ask, lord, if it please your Fortune, that you order the strategos to compel the city secretary to appoint another in my place to the guardianship of the minors, so that I may be free to attend to my farming, in order that I may also be able to pay the debts incurred by me from the service, and that you not drive me from my own property and my own home, so that I may have received your benefaction. Farewell. Year 20 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, month Hadrianos 18. I, Nikias son of Harpalos, have submitted (this).

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