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Report or communication from the village scribes of the Themistos and Polemon divisions of the Arsinoite nome (with village elders standing in where there was no scribe) to the strategos Onomastos. It responds to a letter of the prefect Sempronius Liberalis ordering that people who had fled liturgical duties be publicly summoned to appear within fifteen days. AD 155-156.
Liturgies were compulsory public services imposed on property-holders; fleeing them (anachoresis) was a common problem. The text breaks off within the prefect's letter, and the list of names is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Comunicazione dei komogrammateis allo stratego). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Ὀνομάστῳ στρατηγῷ Ἀρσινοίτου Θεμίστου καὶ Πολέμωνος μερίδων παρὰ τῶν τῶν δυοῖν μερίδων κωμογραμματέων ὧν δὲ κωμῶν μή εἰσι πρεσβυτέρων διαδεχομένων καὶ τὰ κατὰ τὴν κωμογραμματείαν πρὸς ἐπιστολὴν γραφεῖσαν ὑπὸ Σεμπρωνίου Λιβεράλιος τοῦ λαμπροτάτου ἡγεμόνος ἧς ἐστι ἀντίγραφον· Σεμπρ…
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