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p.oxy.63.4381 3. Aug. 375Oxyrhynchos

Proceedings before a Comes Aegypti via HGV-meta

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[r] post consulatum domini nostri Gratiani perpetui Augusti iii et Equitii viri clarissimi comitis die iii nonas Augustas Alexandreae in secretario. […] ex officio dictum est, cuiusmodi libellum Pelion ducenarius publice magnitudini tuae obtulerit prae manibus habentes recitamus, si praecipis. Flavius Mauricius, uir clarissimus, comes ordinis primi et dux, dixit, legatur et actis indatur ex officio recitatum est, παρὰ Φλαουΐων Πηλίωνος δουκηναρίου καὶ Γούνθου κ[…]ἀριθμοῦ Μαύρων Σκουταρίων τῶν ἐν Λύκων πόλει διακειμένων ὑπὸ Παῦλον πραιπόσιτον. πᾶσι μὲν βοηθεῖν εἴωθεν ἡ σὴ ἐξουσία, δοὺξ κύριε, ἐξαιρέτως δὲ ἡμῖν τοῖς στρατιώταις τοῖς καὶ μετὰ τοὺς χρόνους καταμένουσιν. τὸ οὖν καθʼ ἡμᾶς πρᾶγμα τοῦτον ἔχει τὸν τρόπον. τινὲς βίαιοι καὶ θρασεῖς καὶ τῶν νόμων ἀφροντιστοῦντες, ἡμῶν τῇ στρατείᾳ σχολαζόντων, βίαν οὐ τὴν τυχοῦσαν πεποιήκασιν τοῖς ἡμετέροις ἐπὶ τῆς Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν. μήτε γὰρ χωρία ἡμῶν κεκτημένων μήτε γῄδια μήτε μὴν καμήλους, ἴσχυσαν, ἡμῶν, ὡς προείπομεν, ἀπόντων, ὑπὲρ χρυσαργύρου σεῖσαι τοὺς ἡμῖν διαφέροντας, ὃ οὐδεπώποτε ἀπῃτήμεθα ταύτης ἕνεκεν τῆς προφάσεως. τόπον δὲ παντελῶς κεκτήμεθα ἐπὶ τῆς προειρημένης πόλεως ἔνθα τύπῳ καμηλῶνος εἰς ἡμετέραν χρείαν ἔχοντες. ἐπεὶ τοίνυν εὐλαβῶς ἔχομεν μὴ τὸ αὐτὸ πάλιν πάθωσιν οἱ ἡμῖν διαφέροντες παρὰ τῶν τὴν ἀπαίτησιν ἐγκεχειρισμένων, καταφεύγομεν ἐπὶ τὸ σὸν μέγεθος, ἀξιοῦντες καὶ δεόμενοι ὅπως καταξιώσῃς προστάξαι προνοίᾳ Κρησκεντίωνος τοῦ ἐπιτεταγμένου τῇ εἰρήνῃ καὶ Θεοδούλου τοῦ πολιτευομένου τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως τοὺς τὴν φροντίδα τοῦ αὐτοῦ χρυσαργύρου διοικοῦντας τοῦ λοιποῦ κωλῦσαι ἧς ποιοῦνται κατὰ τῶν ἡμετέρων ἀλόγου ἀπαιτήσεως, ἵνα δυνηθῶμεν ἀμέμπτως τῇ στρατείᾳ ἐξυπηρετήσασθαι, ὅπως τούτου τυχόντες χάριτας τὰς μεγίστας τῇ λαμπρᾷ σου τύχῃ ὁμολογῆσαι δυνηθῶμεν, δοὺξ κύριε. Flavius Mauricius, vir clarissimus comes ordinis primi et dux, dixit, si null[…]…[…]… as exer[…]possessiones […]ene…qu[…] argent[…]…[…] [… ? lines lost …] [v] πρόσταξις τοῦ κυρίου μου δουκός.

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