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p.oxy.54.3770 26. März 334Oxyrhynchos

Petition to a Syndic via HGV-meta

Petition to a syndic about a son-in-law who abandoned his wife and child. Petition from Aurelia Ptolema to Aurelius Julianus, syndic of Oxyrhynchus, complaining that her son-in-law Theon abandoned her daughter Arilla and their infant son without support and now demands back his bridal gifts. She asks for action under the marriage laws, apparently including maintenance and her daughter's separation from him. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

Αὐρηλίῳ Ἰουλιανῷ συνδίκῳ τῆς Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως παρὰ Αὐρηλίας Πτολέμας Διονυσίου ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως. τὴν ἡμετέρανθυγατέρα Ἄριλλαν Διογένους[…]…[…]…μη[…] ἐκδέδωκα ἀνδρὶ Θέωνί τινι πρὸς γάμον […]…[…]…[…] τουτ…[…]…ρων ἐξ ἧς καὶ υἱὸν ἔσχεν ἄρρενα ὃν ἐγαλακτοτρόφησεν ἐπὶ ἕναἥμισυ ἐνιαυτὸν καὶ οὔτε τῷ παιδὶ τὰς τροφὰς οὔτε τῇ γυναικὶ ἑαυτοῦ ἐπεκούρησεν ἀλλʼ ἤδη καὶ ἐν ἀλλοδαπῇ γενόμενος πολλῷ χρόνῳ τὰ μὲν στρώματα αὐτοῦ λαβὼν α…[…]σεν καὶ ἐν χηρείᾳ τὴν ἐμὴν θυγατέρα καταλείψας πειρᾶται καὶ τὰ ἕδνα ἅπερ τότε παρέσχεν ἀπαιτεῖν με τῆς ἐμῆς ἀσθενείας καταφρονήσας· ὅθεν οὐ φέρουσα τὴν τοῦ ἀνδρὸς ἀσυνειδησίαν ἐπιδίδωμι τὰ βιβλία ἀξιοῦσα εἰ τῇ αὐτῇ αὐθαδίᾳ ἐπιμένοι καὶ τοὺς νόμους παρεκτ…[…] …τους[…] […]…ν δικαι[…] γάμων ὡρισμένους α…[…]…α…[…] […]…[…]…[…]… τροφὰς τοῦ τε υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ καὶ τῆς γαμετῆς ὑπο […]…[…]…[…]… μηδὲ βουλόμενον διδόναι μηδὲ βιότιον αὐτὸν […]…[…]ἀλλοτριοῦσθαι αὐτὴν τοῦ ἀνδρὸς. ὑπατείας Φλαουίου Ὀπτάτου πατρικίου καὶ Ἀνικίου Παυλίνου τῶν λαμπροτάτων, Φαμενὼθ λ. Αὐρηλία Πτολέμα ἐπιδέδωκα.

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To Aurelius Julianus, syndic of the city of the Oxyrhynchites, from Aurelia Ptolema daughter of Dionysios, from the same city. My daughter Arilla, daughter of Diogenes, […] I gave in marriage to a man, one Theon, […] by whom she also bore a male son, whom she nursed for a year and a half, and he provided neither maintenance for the child nor for his own wife; but having already been abroad for a long time, he took his bedding and […], and leaving my daughter in widowhood, he is trying also to demand back from me the bridal gifts which he provided at that time, despising my weakness. Therefore, not bearing the man's unscrupulousness, I submit this petition, asking that, if he persists in the same insolence and […] the laws […] laid down concerning marriages […] the maintenance of both his son and his wife […] not wishing to give, nor a livelihood (?) […] that she be separated from the man. In the consulship of Flavius Optatus, patrician, and Anicius Paulinus, the most illustrious, Phamenoth 30. I, Aurelia Ptolema, have submitted this.

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