One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 14401

Draft petition of a veteran for repayment of a loan by a legionary TM 14401Arsinoites (?)

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Fragmentary Latin draft, probably by a Roman veteran, asking an official to order Aurelius […]iusus, a soldier of the Third Legion Cyrenaica in the century of Julius Valens, to repay a loan of 100 denarii he had received while the writer was still in service. It probably comes from the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] [… 1 line lost …] On the Ides of February […] […] care […] leave (?) to give […] ten […] I may be able […] by the kindness of your humanity […] to receive what is owed to me […] […] to act (?) […] and manifest (?) […] my […] I have served (?) the petition. Since Aurelius […]iusus, soldier of the Third Legion Cyrenaica, century of Julius Valens, had received from me, while I was still serving in the army, from my own expense, a loan of 100 denarii, and though often asked, has not troubled to repay it, I ask that you order him to pay, so that by your kindness I may receive the loan and give thanks to your Genius.

The other record describes the text as a draft of proceedings and notes of a Roman veteran; the opening lines are largely illegible. The legion Third Cyrenaica was stationed in Egypt until the early 2nd century AD.

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

chla.11.467

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Arsinoites (?)

[… ? lines lost …] [… 1 line lost …] Idibus Februariis … …curas …e… commeatum dare …[…]usum decem […] possim […] beneficio humanitatis tuae … debitum meum percipere … efferci… er…agere …e…emera et manifest…s…rium meum … libellum serui cum Aurelius …iusus miles leg III Cyrenaicae …