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chrest.wilck.447 Ende 169 - Anfang 168 v.Chr.Diospolis Parva

Petition of mercenary cavalrymen at Diospolis Parva about unequal allowances. A petition to Hieronymos, a high-ranking courtier and strategos, from mercenary cavalrymen of the field army at Ptolemais now stationed at Diospolis Parva. They cite their services and dangers in the war and complain that they receive less pay and horse-fodder allowance than comparable cavalry and infantry elsewhere, asking for equal treatment. It dates to late 169 or early 168 BC, during the Sixth Syrian War. machine translation

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Ἱερωνύμωι τῶι ἀρχισωματοφύλακι καὶ στρατηγῶι παρὰ τῶν νυνὶ παρεφεδρευόντων ἐν Διὸς πόλει τῆι μικρᾶι ἀπὸ τῶν ἐν τῶι ἐν Πτολεμαίδι ὑπαίθρωι. πολλὰς χρείας μισθοφόρων ἱππέων παρεσχημένων ἡμῶν ἤδη πολλάκις κατὰ τὸν πόλεμον καὶ κινδύνους μεγάλους[…]ἐνηνοχότων ἐν τοῖς μάλιστʼ ἀναγκαιοτάτοις καιροῖς[…] εἴς τε πᾶν τὸ παρανγελλόμενον […]προθύμως ἑαυτοὺς ἐπιδεδωκότων, καθῆκόν ἐστιν λαμβάνειν ἡμᾶς ὅσα καὶ τοῖς ἐκ τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἡμῖν ὑπαίθρου δίδοται, λαμβανόντων ἡμῶν τὸ μὲν σιτώνιον καθὼς[…]νοι, ἐν δὲ τοῖς κατὰ τὰς ἀγορὰς καὶ τοῦ […] ἐνιαυτοῦ εἰς τὴν κράστιν τῶν ἵππων[…]ἐλαττουμένων ἡμῶν οὐ μόνον παρὰ τοὺς ἄλλους ἐν τῶι ἐν Πτολεμαΐδι ὑπαίθρωι ἱππεῖς, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺς τεταγμένους ἐν τοῖς Χηνοβοσκίοις τοῦ αὐτοῦ νομοῦ, ὡσαύτως δὲ καὶ παρὰ τοὺς[…] πεζοὺς καὶ τοὺς ἐν τοῖς ἄλλοις τόποις τεταγμένουςμισθοφόρους ἱππεῖς ἀπὸ τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἡμῖν ὑπαίθρου. ἡμεῖς γὰρ τῶν ἄλλων λαμβανόντων κατὰ μῆνα τὰς ἀγορὰς […] τοῦ γραμματεύσαντος οὐκ ἐκθέντος […]…α ἡμᾶς πράττοντος παρὰ πάντα τὰ δίκαια[…]τὴν καταφυγὴν ἐπὶ σὲ πεποιήμεθα[…] [… ? lines lost …]

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To Hieronymos, archisomatophylax and strategos, from those now serving as reserves (?) in Diospolis Parva, from the men of the field army at Ptolemais. Since we have already often rendered many services as mercenary cavalrymen during the war and have endured great dangers […] at the most critical times […] and have eagerly given ourselves to every order […], it is proper that we receive as much as is given also to those from the same field army as ourselves, since we receive the grain allowance […] as […], but in the matter of the pay allowances and the […] of the year for the fodder of the horses […] we are disadvantaged not only in comparison with the other cavalrymen in the field army at Ptolemais, but also with those stationed at Chenoboskia in the same nome, and likewise in comparison with the […] infantry and the mercenary cavalrymen stationed in the other places from the same field army as ourselves. For while the others receive their pay allowances monthly, we […] the one who served as secretary not having posted (?) […] exacting from us (?) contrary to all that is just […] we have taken refuge with you […] […]

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