Petition of Stotoetis for summons of Sotas and Ammonios before the prefect TM 11738Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)150 - 154

To Demetrios also called Harpokration, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, Themistos and Polemon divisions, from Stotoetis son of Stotoetis, from the village of Soknopaiou Nesos in the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome. Since I have a case against Sotas son of Theon and his son Ammonios, who are from the metropolis and live in the so-called farmstead of Areios near the village of Herakleia in the Themistos division, men given to audacity and violence, concerning the violence they did to me, working together with one another and taking along with them Herakleides, an attendant, as if on the order of Theon, former strategos of the same division, to the point that, acting in a body, they carried out a most criminal undertaking and forced me with insults and blows to issue documents of a handwritten sale and mortgage and loan of 400 drachmas in the name of my sister, without her consent and indeed in her absence, to the name of Sotas' daughter Satyriaina, while she was still alive, taking advantage of the condition of my feet, behaving arrogantly and as if in a wilderness, thinking that their lawless and unjust acts would succeed for them because no payment of staters had taken place; about which, not keeping quiet, I petitioned the former prefect Honoratus, who instructed me to petition Crispus, the former epistrategos, and up to now no end has yet been put to the matter; and since this matter requires the judgment of the most illustrious prefect Munatius Felix, I ask that a copy of this be served through an attendant on each of them, so that they may know that they are to appear before the most sacred tribunal of the prefect, wherever he holds the assize of the nome or his jurisdiction, I being content with this notification, while my claim regarding all the rights I have against them in writing remains reserved.