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Petition to the Prefect Concerning a Liturgy via HGV-meta

Petition to the prefect against nomination to two liturgies, citing an imperial rescript. A petition from an Oxyrhynchite, son of Eudaimon, to the prefect Subatianus Aquila, complaining that the district scribe Apollonios had nominated him to two compulsory public services (liturgies) at once, contrary to an imperial ruling of Severus and Caracalla, which is quoted at the start. A second fragment preserves excerpts of court proceedings from year 9 of Severus before Laetus in a similar case involving a donkey-driver. machine translation

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[FrA] Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Λούκιος Σεπτίμιος Εὐσεβὴς Περτίναξ Σεβαστὸς Ἀραβικὸς Ἀδιαβηνικὸς Παρθικὸς Μέγιστος καὶ Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Μᾶρκος Αὐρήλιος Ἀντωνῖνος Εὐσεβὴς Σεβαστὸς Αἰλίῳ Πρίμῳ. ἐὰν […]…ς ἀποδειξ[…]…τον γεγονέναι, ὁ ἡγούμενος τοῦ ἔθνους φροντίσει σε τῆς ἑτέρας ἀνεθῆναι. προετέθη ἐν Μέμφει ἐν τῇ στοᾷ τοῦ Σαραπείου πρὸ πέντε εἰδῶν Δεκεμβρίων. Σουβατιανῷ Ἀκύλᾳ ἐπάρχῳ Αἰγύπτου παρὰ[…]υ Εὐδαίμονος ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως. οἱ κύριοι ἡμῶν ἀήττητοι Αὐτοκράτορες Σεουῆρος καὶ Ἀντωνῖνος ἐπιλάμψαντες τῇ ἑαυτῶν Αἰγύπτῳ μεθʼ ὧν ἄλλων παρέσχον ἡμῖν ἀγαθῶν καὶ τοῦτο τῷ ἡγουμένῳ τοῦ ἔθνους διετάξαντο ὥστε μηδένα ὑπὸ τὸν αὐτὸν χρόνον εἰς δύο λειτουργίας ἀναδίδοσθαι […]…ησας ὁ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως ἀμφοδογραμματεὺς Ἀπολλώνιος εἰς δύο με λειτουργίας τῷ ἐνεστῶτι[…]ἔτει ἀνέδωκεν καὶ ταῦτα οὐδὲ πληρώσαντά με τὰ ἔτη […]…[…]…. προτάξας οὖν τὰ θεῖα περὶ […]ν ἡμῶν α[…]μενον περὶ του[…] […] διακοῦσαί μου πρὸς αὐτὸν […]…ιμ[…] [… ? lines lost …] [FrB] [… ? lines lost …] […] ἔτους θ Σεουήρου[…]…[…]…[…] […]προσελθὼν εἶπεν· ὀνηλάτης εἰμὶ καὶ οἱ γραμματεῖς […] νῦν εἰς δύο λειτουργίας κατέχῃ· Ἥρων ἀπεκρίνατο· […]τῆς κώμης. Λαῖτος εἶπεν· ἡ δευτέρα λειτουργία ποτατή ἐστιν·[…]γραμματεῖ πόλεως ε…[…]…στις λειτουργεῖ τὴν ὀνηλασίαν […]μενος οὖν αὐτὸν ὀνηλάτην ὄντα πῶς ἐκάλεις εἰς τὴν […]μεθʼ ἕτερα Λαῖτος Ἡρακλείδῃ καὶ …α εἶπεν· πόσων κα […]καὶ σκεψάμενος μετὰ τῶν ἐν τῷ συμβουλίῳ ἐκέλευσεν Ἡρακλείδην καὶ […] γραμματεὺς ὢν πόλεως τοὺς αὐτοὺς ἐπι […]…ιου…[…]…ομ…[…]…πορο…[…]…η ἐπὶ τρι […] [… ? lines lost …]

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[Fragment A] Emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus Arabicus Adiabenicus Parthicus Maximus and Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Augustus to Aelius Primus. If […] proof (?) […] to have happened, the governor of the province will see to it that you are released from the other (liturgy). Posted at Memphis in the stoa of the Sarapeum on the fifth day before the Ides of December. To Subatianus Aquila, prefect of Egypt, from […] son of Eudaimon, from Oxyrhynchus city. Our lords the invincible Emperors Severus and Antoninus, having shone upon their own Egypt, among the other benefits which they bestowed upon us also ordered this to the governor of the province, that no one should be nominated to two liturgies at the same time. […] Apollonios, the amphodogrammateus of the same city, nominated me to two liturgies in the present […] year, and this although I had not even completed the years […]. Having therefore set out first the divine (rulings) concerning […] our […] concerning […] to hear me against him […] […] […] [Fragment B] […] […] year 9 of Severus […] […] came forward and said: 'I am a donkey-driver, and the scribes […] now you are held in two liturgies.' Heron replied: '[…] of the village.' Laetus said: 'The second liturgy is the water-carrying (?) […] to the scribe of the city […] performs the donkey-driving liturgy […] knowing (?) therefore that he was a donkey-driver, how did you summon him to the […]' […] after other things Laetus said to Herakleides and […]: 'How many […]' […] and having deliberated with those in the council he ordered Herakleides and […] being scribe of the city the same […] […] […] for three […] […]

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