Protest of a former procurator of imperial estates against the catholicus Diodotos TM 17203Oxyrhynchos360

[recto] In the consulship of our masters Constantius Augustus for the 10th time and Julian the most illustrious Caesar for the 3rd time, […] In the glorious and most glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites. Making request, I, Flavius Herak(…), also styled former procurator of the imperial estates of the Oxyrhynchite and Upper Kynopolite nome, declare before witness that the trust committed to me over the imperial estates during the time when I was entrusted with their administration, with our customary scrupulousness and due fear, I preserved before you, in each indiction satisfying the imperial account blamelessly. But the intrigue of Diodotos, former catholicus of the imperial affairs, carried out for the sake of his own love of money and greed for base gain, he making it plain that he would work extortions from me, has been such that through his false accusation I suffered confiscation and distress, and the […] he alienated the benefits of the philanthropy of the eternal reign of the masters of the world, the most pious emperors. For this same Diodotos, having come to these parts, contrived against me the charge that I had exacted beyond the canon from villages throughout the Kynopolite 3,200 myriads (of denarii), and on his own will he lays down that for 800 arouras […] at 4 myriads for each aroura the exaction should be made from me; and demanding for these sums of silver 60 solidi, pretending that he would give them to the country people, he keeps them with himself and carries them off for his own use, not allowing me to restore what I had to the country people […] apart from […] […] of the Oxyrhynchite and […] of each […] seeking […] [… 12 lines lost …] […] was brought and referred by report to the same […] […] Evagrios, the most glorious comes of the imperial (estates), the administration […] […] of the minutes of proceedings […] [… lines lost …] [verso] [… 6 lines lost …]