Petition to a Strategos
Petition addressed to Asklepiades, strategos of the Herakleidou meris, by Horos, son of Horos, who complains about some theft of hay
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Petition to the strategos Asklepiades about theft of hay TM 12268Bacchias, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egyptca. 126-128 A.D.
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Petition from Horos son of Horos of Bakchias to Asklepiades, strategos of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome, complaining about the theft of a load of hay and a sheaf of wheat and a counter-accusation against him. It dates to about AD 126-128.
In English machine translation
To Asklepiades, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division,
from Horos son of Horos, from the village of Bakchias. Hay was stolen in the plain of the village, one load of hay. And while this man was carrying off the hay by stealth, he untied a sheaf of wheat for his own horses. Moreover, when I disputed with him about these things, he compelled the chief of police (archephodos) of the plain to stand surety, (a man) whom I also have as a neighbour, on the pretext of his hay, and (to allege) that I too had stolen, so that one of the elders, Alexas, compared the hay (and) found it did not match […]
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The end of the petition is lost, and the syntax of the surviving last lines is loose, so their exact sense is uncertain. The archephodos was a village police official.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petition to a Strategos). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.mich.10.581
Ἀσκληπιάδῃ στρατηγῷ Ἀρσινοίτου Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος παρὰ Ὥρου τοῦ Ὥρου ἀπὸ κώμης Βακχιάδος. ἐκλάπη δὲ χόρτος ἐν πεδίῳ τῆς κώμης, χόρτου γόμος εἷς . τούτου δὲ αἴροντος τὸν χόρτον κλεψιμαίως, ἔλυσε δράγμα πύρινον τοῖς ἑαυτοῦ ἵπποις. ἀλλὰ καὶ συνζητήσαντός μου αὐτῶι περὶ τούτων ἠνάγκα…