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Petition of Aurelius Ouranios to Abinnaeus about an assault over sheep and fodder TM 10048Theoxenis (Arsinoites)ca. 346

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Petition to Flavius Abinnaeus, commander of the cavalry unit at Dionysias, from Aurelius Ouranios, a former praepositus and landowner at Theoxenis. He complains that Petros son of Agaon and his two brothers interfered with sheep and fodder on his land and then beat him with clubs near the Hermopolite border, and he asks that they be arrested. Written around AD 346.

In English machine translation

To Flavius Abinnaeus, prefect of the ala of soldiers of the camp of Dionysias, from Aurelius Ouranios son of Dalmatios, former praepositus, landowner in the village of Theoxenis. On the fourteenth of the present month Choiak, as I was going round my field, Dioskoros son of Paulos the Libyan told me that the sheep [...] Petros son of Agaon and with him two other brothers [...] having rolled (?) the sheep and appropriated the fodder, and I [...] (?) to them, and the three of them attacked me near the boundaries of Hermopolis with clubs and nearly killed me with blows. For this very reason I ask and beg your humanity that, having arrested these men, you [...] [...]

The verb exalisantes ('rolling' or 'grazing about') is obscure, and part of the account of the sheep is garbled or lost. 'Killed me' is the petitioner's hyperbole for a severe beating.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · ca. 346 · Theoxenis (Arsinoites)

Φλαυείῳ Ἀβινναίῳ ἐπάρχῳ εἴλης στρατιωτῶν κάστρων Διονυσιάδος παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Οὐρανίου υἱοῦ Δαλματίου ἀπὸ πραιποσίτων γεουχοῦντος ἐν κώμῃ Θεοξενίδι. κατὰ τὴν τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτην τοῦ ὄντος μηνὸς Χοιὰκ περιερχομένου μου τὸν ἀγρόν μου εἶπέν μοι Διόσκορος υἱὸς Παύλου τοῦ Λιβυκοῦ ὅτι τὰ π…