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Strategos' order to a praepositus pagi on wine levy for military supplies TM 17497Oxyrhynchites10. Aug. 316

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An official letter from the strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, Aurelius Apollonios also called Eudaimon, to Aurelius Heras, praepositus of the 8th pagus, passing on the procurator's order that half of the wine levy delegated to the Thebaid be supplied as old wine or paid at 65 denarii per sextarius. Heras is to hand over his district's share to the council's superintendent so the soldiers' provisions are not short. Dated 10 August 316.

In English machine translation

Aurelius Apollonios also called Eudaimon, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, through Plou[…], deputy, to Aurelius Heras, praepositus of the 8th pagus, his dearest, greeting. In what his excellency my lord the procurator of the Heptanomia, Aurelius Gregorius, wrote, he ordered that half of the wine of the Thebaid delegated in the 5th indiction be dispatched in old wine, or else at a price of 65 denarii for each sextarius, opinatores having arrived for this purpose and a superintendent having also been chosen by the council. Take care therefore, on receiving this letter, to deliver to the superintendent the sextarius-assessment falling upon the pagus under you, so that no shortfall may occur regarding the soldiers' provisions. I pray for your health, dearest. In the consulship of Caecinius Sabinus and Vettius Rufinus, the most illustrious, Mesore 17. I, Aurelius Dioskoros, assistant of the strategos, delivered it on the same day.

Opinatores were military officers who collected provisions (annona) for troops. The 'xestismos' is the assessment reckoned in sextarii (xestai) of wine owed by each district.

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

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 10. Aug. 316 · Oxyrhynchites

Αὐρήλιος Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ καὶ Εὐδαίμων στρατηγὸς Ὀξυρυγχίτου διὰ Πλου[…] διαδόχου Αὐρηλίῳ Ἡρᾷ πραιποσίτῳ η πάγου τῷ φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. διʼ ὧν ἔγραψεν ἡ ἐμμέλεια τοῦ κυρίου μου ἐπιτρόπου τῆς Ἑπτανομίας Αὐρηλίου Γρηγορίου ἐκέλευσεν τοῦ δηληγατευθέντος οἴνου τῆς Θηβαΐδος ἐν τῇ ε ἰνδικτίον…