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chrest.mitt.300 Ende IVHermopolis

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Complaint over withheld bridal gifts and property taken by a husband. A complaint, likely the speech of an advocate, on behalf of the orphan Olympiane and her curator Kastor, a Hermopolis councillor, against her husband Besarion, a former beneficiarius. He had promised bridal gifts by written note but never paid, then left the household taking some of her property; she asks for the gifts and her property to be restored. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

νι ὑπὲρ Ὀλυμπιανῆς θυγατρὸς Διονυσίου ἀπὸ πριμιπιλαρίων μετὰ Κάστορος κουράτορος βουλευτοῦ τῆς λαμπρᾶς Ἑρμοπολειτῶν πόλεως. ἔστιν ἀμφοῖν τοῖν γονέοιν ὀργανὴ ἡ βοηθουμένη. τοῦ οὖν κουράτορος αὐτῆς τοῦ προωνομασμένου Κάστορος ὑπὸ Βησαρίωνός τινος ἀπὸ βενεφικιαρίων τῆς σεμνῆς ταυτησὶ τάξεως ἀξιωθέντος ἐπὶ ἕδνοις τισὶν ὡς ἄγεσθαι βούλεσθαι τὴν παῖδα, ὁ μὲν κουράτωρ γνώμης γενομένης τῆς βοηθουμένης ἐπὶ συμφώνοις ἕδνοις ἀγράφως τὸν γάμον ἐδεξιάσατο, ἐξ ἑτοίμου δὲ μὴ ἔχων ὁ γῆμαι βουληθεὶς τὰ ἕδνα παρασχέσθαι γραμματῖον ἔθετο τῇ νῦν βοηθουμένῃ μετὰ τοῦ κουράτορος καὶ ᾤοντό γε κατὰ τὴν πίστιν τοῦ γραμματείου τὰ ἕδνα παρασχήσεσθαι, διὸ καὶ οἱ γάμοι συνήφθησαν. τούτων οὕτω πεπραγμένων καὶ τῆς συμβιώσεως κατὰ ταῦτα[…]κυας ἡρμοσμένης ὁμοῦ οὐκ εἰς μακράν, ἐπειδὴ τὰ ἕδνα ἀπαιτεῖσθαι πρός τε τοῦ κουράτορος καὶ αὐτῆς τῆς γημαμένης ἔμελλεν, οὐκ ἴσμεν ὃν τρόπον βουληθεὶς τὰ μὲν οὐκ ἀπεδίδου ἀνεχώρει δὲ ἀπὸ τῆς ἑστίας, τῆς ἐν ᾗ οἱ γάμοι ἐπετελέσθησαν, οὐ τὰ ἑαυτοῦ ἐπικομιζόμενος μόνον, ἀλλὰ καί τινα τῆς γημαμένης. ἐπεὶ τοίνυν τὸ μὲν ἕδνον οὐκ ἀποδέδωκεν, ἀλλʼ ἔτι καὶ νῦν χρεωστεῖ ἀλλʼ ὃ διήρπασεν τῆς παιδός ἔτι διακατέχει ἐν ἀργυρίῳ, καθʼ ἑαυτὴν δὲ ἐάσας διαιτᾶσθαι ᾤχετο ὡς ἑαυτὸν πέμπειν κατὰ τοὺς νόμους μετὰ τοῦ κουράτορος αὐτῇ ὑπαρχθῆναι ταῦτα ἀξιούσῃ· προηγουμένως μὲν αὐτῇ ἐγγράφως τὸ χρεωστούμενον ἕδνον ἀποδοθῆναι, ἔπειτα δὲ καὶ ἃ ἀπηνέγκατο …[…]…οντα αὐτὸν τῷ οἰκείῳ ἀποδοῦναι τόπῳ. τούτων γὰρ οὕτω πεπραγμένων εἰκότως καὶ ἡ τοῦ γάμου ἁρμονία τέλειος ἔσται.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[…] on behalf of Olympiane, daughter of Dionysios, former primipilarius, with Kastor her curator, councillor of the splendid city of the Hermopolites. The assisted party is an orphan of both parents. Now when her aforementioned curator Kastor was asked by a certain Besarion, former beneficiarius of this venerable office, on the basis of certain bridal gifts, as wishing to marry the girl, the curator, with the consent of the assisted party, accepted the marriage on agreed bridal gifts without a written contract; and since the man who wished to marry did not have the bridal gifts ready to provide, he made a written note to the present assisted party together with the curator, and they believed that on the strength of the note the bridal gifts would be provided, and for this reason the marriage was concluded. These things having been done in this way, and their life together having been arranged accordingly […], not long afterwards, when the bridal gifts were about to be demanded by the curator and by the married woman herself, we do not know with what intention, he did not pay them, but withdrew from the household in which the marriage had been celebrated, carrying off not only his own things but also some belonging to the married woman. Since therefore he has not paid the bridal gift but still owes it even now, and still retains in money what he plundered from the girl, and leaving her to live on her own he went away as if [...] himself to send [according to] the laws, (we ask) with the curator that these things be granted to her as she requests: first, that the bridal gift owed be paid to her in writing, and then also that what he carried off […] he restore to its proper place. For when these things have been done in this way, the harmony of the marriage will reasonably also be complete.

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