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p.oxy.6.898 23. Juni 123Oxyrhynchos

Petition to an Acting - Strategus via HGV-meta

Petition of a minor against his mother's fraudulent guardianship. A petition from the young Didymos of Oxyrhynchus to Hermodoros, royal scribe and acting strategos, accusing his mother and guardian Matrina of tricking him into a debt and mortgage in favour of Dioskoros, seizing his indemnity deed, and withholding his allowance. He asks that the complaint be placed on record. Dated 23 June AD 123. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

Ἑρμοδώρωι βασιλικῷ γραμματεῖ διαδεχομένωι καὶ τὴν στρατηγίαν παρὰ Διδύμου Διονυσίου τοῦ καὶ Φατρέως ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως. ἡ μήτηρ μου Ματρεῖνα Ἡρακλήου τοῦ καὶ Ματρέου οὖσά μου ἐπίτροπος καὶ πολλά με ἀδικοῦσα ἔτι καὶ πλανήσασά με ἐποίησεν εἰς Ὄασιν καταβῆναι καὶ γράψασθαι Διοσκόρῳ ἀνδρὶ ἀπελευθέρας αὐτῆς ὄντι ἰδίωι αὐτῆς αδοτ…[…] ἀργυρίου ταλάντου ἑνὸς ἡμίσους καὶ ὑποθέσθαι ὅσα ἔχω ἐν τῇ Ὀάσει κτήματα λαβόντα τοῦ Διοσκόρου γράμματα ἀπερισπάστου. ἀναβάντα δέ με εἰς τὸν Ὀξυρυγχείτην μετὰ καὶ τοῦ Διοσκόρου ἐνήδρευσεν ἄχρι ἂν αἰτήσῃ με τὴν ἀπερίσπαστον καὶ ταύτης ἐνκρατὴς γενομένη καὶ συνειδυῖα ἑαυτῆι πολλὰ τῶν ἐμῶν ἀνηρπακυίηι οὐ πρότερον ὁμολογεῖν θέλει αἰτοῦσά με ἀντὶ ταύτης ἀποχὴν τῆς ἐπιτροπῆς, οἰομένη ἐκ τούτου δύνασθαι ἐκφυγεῖν ἃ διέπραξεν· καίτοι Φιλονίκου τοῦ στρατηγοῦ καθʼ ὑπομνηματισμοὺς κρίναντος ἕτερόν μου ἐπίτροπον κατασταθῆναι, οὐ πιστεύοντος οὔτε αὐτῇ οὐδὲ τῆι ἡλικίᾳ μου. χωρὶς δὲ τούτων οὐδὲ ὀψώνιόν μοι ἐχορήγησεν ἔτι πρὸ μηνῶν τριῶν , ἐκ παντὸς θλίβουσά με εἰς τὸ μὴ δύνασθαι κατʼ αὐτῆς προελθεῖν. ὧν πάντων χάριν ἀναγκαίως ἐπιδιδοὺς τὸ ἀναφόριον ἀξιῶ ἔχειν ἐν καταχωρισμῷ καὶ διαλαβεῖν ὡς ἐάν σοι δόξῃ. ἔτους ζ Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τραιανοῦ Ἁδριανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ Παῦνι κθ.

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To Hermodoros, royal scribe, also acting as deputy for the strategia, from Didymos son of Dionysios also called Phatres, from the city of Oxyrhynchus. My mother Matrina, daughter of Herakleos also called Matreas, being my guardian and having wronged me in many ways, further deceived me and made me go down to the Oasis and execute in favour of Dioskoros, the husband of her freedwoman and her own man, a [...] of 1 1/2 talents of silver, and mortgage all the property I have in the Oasis, after taking from Dioskoros a deed of indemnity. When I came up to the Oxyrhynchite nome together with Dioskoros, she lay in wait until she could ask me for the deed of indemnity, and having got possession of it, and being conscious that she has plundered much of my property, she refuses to acknowledge it, demanding from me in exchange for it a receipt discharging her guardianship, thinking that by this she can escape the consequences of what she has done; and this although Philonikos the strategos decided, according to the minutes, that another guardian should be appointed for me, since he trusted neither her nor my youth. Apart from this, she has not even supplied me with my allowance for three months now, oppressing me in every way so that I may be unable to proceed against her. For all these reasons I am compelled to submit this petition and ask that it be kept on record and that you deal with the matter as you see fit. Year 7 of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, Pauni 29.

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