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chrest.wilck.439 25. Juni - 28. Aug. 42Hermopolis

Prefect's edict against illegal requisitions and extortion. Edict of the prefect of Egypt Lucius Aemilius Rectus forbidding soldiers, police and officials from requisitioning people or demanding free provisions from the rural population without his official permit, and threatening the severest penalty for violence or extortion. It is dated to the second year of Claudius (AD 42) and comes from Hermopolis. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

Λεύκιος Αἰμίλλις Ῥῆκτος λέγει· μηδενὶ ἐξέστω ἀγγαρεύειν τοὺς ἐπὶ τῆς χώρας μηδὲ ἐφόδια ἢ ἄλλο τι δωρεὰν αἰτεῖν ἄτερ τοῦ ἐμοῦ διπλώματος, λαμβάνειν δὲ ἕκαστον τῶν ἐχόντων ἐμὸν δίπλωμα τὰ αὐτάρκη ἐπιτήδεια τιμὴν ἀποδιδόντας αὐτῶν. ἐὰν δέ τις μηνυθῇ ἢ τῶν στρατευομένων ἢ τῶν μαχαιροφόρων ἢ ὅστις οὖν τῶν ὑπηρετῶν τῶν ἐπὶ ταῖς δημοσίαις χρείαις παρὰ τὸ ἐμὸν διάταγμα πεποιηκὼς ἢ βεβιασμένος τινὰ τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς χώρας ἢ ἀργυρολογήσας, κατὰ τούτου τῇ ἀνωτάτῳ χρήσομαι τιμωρίᾳ ἔτους β Τιβερίου Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος Γερμανικείου δ

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
Lucius Aemilius Rectus declares: No one is permitted to requisition the people in the countryside, nor to demand travel provisions or anything else without payment, without my permit (diploma); but each of those holding my permit shall receive sufficient necessities, paying their price. If anyone is reported, whether of the soldiers or of the sword-bearers or of any of the attendants employed in public services, to have acted contrary to my edict, or to have used violence against any of the people of the countryside, or to have extorted money, against him I shall employ the utmost penalty. Year 2 of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Imperator, Germaniceus 4.

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Found at Hermopolis

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