Letters ordering promotions and discharges of cavalry at the camp of Psoftis TM 12866unbekannt401

[1] Flavius Heraclianus to Dionysios, his brother, prefect of the camp of Psoftis. The former (officers) of the camp entrusted to you have indicated in a letter sent to the office that the schools listed below have long been lacking the established number of places, and they have also proposed, at their own risk, two suitable men to fill these same schools. [Therefore], on receipt of [this letter], have the said men entered in these places from the day of the Kalends of […] in the consulship of our lords [Arcadius] for the fourth time and Honorius for the third time, perpetual Augusti, taking care that they receive [their rations] according to the merits of their own rank. They are: Sarapion, cataphract, promoted decurion Apion, cavalryman, promoted cataphract Copy [2] Flavius Pulcher to Gerontios, his brother, prefect of the camp of Psofthis. Every rank […] […] for neither […] in the place which military discipline allows to be left vacant on account of the merit of labours, and know by the authority of this letter that Sarapion, munifex, must be appointed to it in the school of cataphracts, so that, having obtained the merit of his present rank, he may carry out his military devotion more eagerly; and from the day of the Ides (?) of April after the consulship of our lords Arcadius for the third time and Honorius for the second time, perpetual Augusti, entered, as has been said, in the rolls of his own rank, let him receive rations. Copy Given on the 15th day before the Kalends of May at Alexandria. [3] Flavius Eleutherius […] to […], his brother, prefect of the camp of Psoftis. […] the names inserted in the rolls […] in the consulship of Vincentius and Fravitus, men of clarissimus rank, you will take care to discharge them, every kind of weapon with which they appeared to be equipped having been returned. They are: Decurions: Sarapion, suffering from colic, 18 years of service Stephanos, disabled, 22 years of service Phileas, old, 35 years of service Isidoros, sick, 18 years of service Cataphracts: Dorotheos, old, 27 years of service Phoibammon, as above, 20 years of service Apammon, suffering from colic, 10 years of service Phoibammon, disabled, 7 years of service Cavalrymen: Heraklas, old, 27 years of service Ahesis, as above, 27 years of service Antonius, as above, 27 years of service