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Petition to Korax from Marsisouchos son of Marres, a public farmer of Theadelphia in the Arsinoite nome. He complains that after taking over 24 arouras of public land from another farmer and preparing them for sowing, the village scribe's secretary Soterichos had him removed and took the land for his own account. Dated 11 October AD 3 (year 33 of Augustus).
"Public farmer" (demosios georgos) was a cultivator of state-owned land under lease. A duplicate of this petition survives as P.Mil. 2.43.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Frammento di petizione). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Κόρακι παρὰ Μαρσισούχου τοῦ Μαρρήους τῶν ἀπὸ Θεαδελφείας τῆς Θεμίστου μερίδος δημοσίου γεωργοῦ. τῶι ἐνεστῶτι λγ ἔτει Καίσαρος ἐκκεχώρημαι ὑπὸ Πνεφερῶτος τοῦ Τιθοήους δημοσίου γεωργοῦ τὰς ἐν τῶι ὀνόματι αὐτοῦ περὶ τὴν κώμην δημοσίας γῆς ἀρούρας εἴκοσι τέσσαρας ὧν καὶ ἀντιλαβόμενος…
[… ? lines lost …] ὥστε βλάβος μοι οὐκ […] ἐπακολουθεῖν. ἐπεὶ οὖν ὁ Σωτήριχος ἔχει μου παρʼ ἑαυτῷ σύμβολα λαογραφίας ἐτῶν ἕξ , ἀξιῶ συντάξαι καταστῆσαι τὸν Σωτήριχον ἐπὶ σέ, ὅπως διαστολὰς λάβῃ ἀπέχεσθαι μου, ἐπαναγκασθῆι δὲ καὶ ἀποδοῦναι ἃ ἔχει μου ἵνα μηδὲν τῶν δημοσίων διαπέση…
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