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Copy of an edict of the prefect of Egypt Gaius Avidius Heliodorus, posted at Memphis, responding to complaints made at his assize that local officials assigned compulsory public services (liturgies) unfairly. He orders those who claimed that some people were being shielded from service to report their names.
Liturgies were compulsory unpaid public services imposed on property owners in Roman Egypt. The 'officials in charge' (pragmatikoi) were local administrators who nominated people for these duties.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Editto prefettizio). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
ἀντίγραφον προγράμματος ἐκτεθέντος ἐν Μέμφει· Γάιος Αὐίδιος Ἡλιόδωρος ἔπαρχος Αἰγύπτου λέγει· πολλῶν ἐν τῷ γεναμένῳ διαλογισμῷ μεμψαμένων τοὺς πραγματικοὺς διὰ λειτουργίας, ἀναγκαῖον ἔδοξέ μοι πυθέσθαι τῶν μεμψαμένων μή τινας ἐσκεπάσθαι λέγουσι, ἐπειδὴ τὸ ἀδίκημα οὐκ ἐν τῷ διδόνα…
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