Letter of Qurra ibn Sharik to Basileios on fugitives from the Arsinoite nome TM 19802Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)

[recto] In the name of God. Qurra son of Sharik, governor, to Basileios, administrator of the village of Aphrodito. […] go round (?) to learn the regulation which we issued concerning the return of the fugitives of the Arsinoite nome, if indeed you understand it. For already, as you know, we have written to you about these matters, and up to now you have not sent any of them, for what reason we do not know. Know therefore that if you are shown to have neglected anything at all of our instructions, or if we find in your district anyone of those whom we wrote to you to send, it would have been better for you never to have been born nor to appear among the living. Further, warn the people of your district earnestly regarding these same fugitives of the Arsinoite nome. For none of you has pardon or remission if any of them is found in this place or […] or courtyard […] anyone, as has been said, of those who have been ordered to be returned, fugitives of the Arsinoite nome. Further, as has been said, take good care and guard your life together with those of your district […] for with the present letter of ours, by the command of God, we are sending our envoy, who is to search with all exactness for such fugitives wherever they may be, and whoever is shown to have any of the fugitives who have been designated to be returned shall perish, that is […]. Written in the month […], indiction 8. [verso] Qurra son of Sharik, governor, to Basileios, administrator of the village of Aphrodito.