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p.oxy.31.2563 ca. 170Oxyrhynchos

Petition to Epistrategus via HGV-meta

Petition to the epistrategos about an assault over an inheritance. A petition from Sarapion son of Hierax, curator of the Sarapeum and other temples of Oxyrhynchus, to the epistrategos Aquilius Capitolinus. He complains that Ploution son of Dionysodoros and his son-in-law assaulted him, his son and the boy's nurse Heras in a dispute over an inheritance left to Heras by her brother, and asks for a hearing. Written at Oxyrhynchus around AD 170. machine translation

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Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

Ἀκυλίῳ Καπιτωλείνῳ τῷ κρατίστῳ ἐπιστρατήγῳ παρὰ Σαραπίωνος Ἱέρακος ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως ἐπιμελητοῦ Σαραπείου φυλῶν καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἱερῶν τῆς πόλεως. ἐνέτυχόν σοι, κύριε, διὰ βιβλιδίου ἀξιοῦντός σου καὶ ὑπέσχου ὥστε ἀνάπεμψαι τὰ βιβλίδια καὶ μέχρι τούτου οὐκ ἀνεδόθη μοι περί τε ὕβρεως ἣ ἐμοὶ ἐγένετο ὑπὸ Πλουτίωνος Διονυσοδώρου καὶ τοῦ γαμβροῦ αὐτοῦ. ἐνέτυχον δὲ καὶ Ἡρακλείδῃ βασιλικῷ γραμματεῖ διαδεχομένῳ καὶ τὰ κατὰ τὴν στρατηγίαν, καὶ ἀνήγκασεν ἑνὶ τῶν περὶ αὐτὸν ὑπηρετῶν Θράσυλλον ἐπιδεῖν τὴν περὶ ἐμὲ διάθεσιν περὶ τῆς γεγενημένης μοι ὕβρεως, καὶ προσφώνησις ἰατροῦ ἐπηκολούθησεν περὶ ὧν εἶχον τότε τραυμάτων. οὐ μόνον ἐμὲ ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν υἱόν μου καὶ τὴν τροφὸν αὐτοῦ Ἡρᾶν ᾐκίσατο αὐτοὺς πληγαῖς ἕνεκα κληρονομίας υ…[…] ἐνδομενίας ἧς κατέλειψεν τῇ Ἡρᾶτι ὁ ἀδελφὸς αὐτῆς Σαραπίων μετὰ τελευτὴν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐδημοσιώθη διὰ τοῦ ἀρχιδικαστοῦ τὸ γράμμα ὥστε αὐτὴν εἶναι κληρονόμον. οὕτως οὖν αὐθάδως χρησάμενος κωμήτης ὢν ἐπῆλθεν ἡμῖν. ἐπὶ σὲ κατέφυγον τὸν πάντων σωτῆρα καὶ εὐεργέτην ἀκοῦσαί μου πρὸς αὐτόν. οὐδεμία βία γείνεται ἐν τοῖς εὐτυχεστάτοις τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνείνου καίσαρος τοῦ […]…η ἐπιστρα […]νμεν […]ημα

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
To Aquilius Capitolinus, the most excellent epistrategos, from Sarapion son of Hierax, of the city of Oxyrhynchus, curator of the Sarapeum of the tribes and of the other temples of the city. I petitioned you, lord, by a petition, as you required, and you promised to send back the petitions, and up to now it has not been delivered to me, concerning the outrage done to me by Ploution son of Dionysodoros and his son-in-law. I also petitioned Herakleides, royal scribe, who is also acting in the office of the strategos, and he compelled one of the assistants with him, Thrasyllos, to inspect my condition concerning the outrage done to me, and a doctor's report followed concerning the wounds I then had. Not only me but also my son and his nurse Heras he maltreated with blows on account of an inheritance […] of household furnishings (?) which her brother Sarapion left to Heras after his death, and the document was registered publicly through the archidikastes so that she is the heir. Thus, then, behaving so arrogantly, though he is a villager, he attacked us. I have taken refuge with you, the saviour and benefactor of all, to hear me against him. No violence occurs in the most fortunate times of our lord Aurelius Antoninus Caesar the […] epistrategos (?) […]

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