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Petition of Serenos to the riparii about his wife given to another man TM 20209Hermopolis362
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A petition from Aurelius Serenos of the village of Ense to the riparii (local police officials) of the Hermopolite nome, AD 362. He complains that after three years of marriage to Tamounis, her mother claimed the wife was possessed by a demon and, while he was away working, married her off to another man, Peeus of the village of Achilleus.
In English machine translation
In the consulship of Mamertinus and Nevitta, the most illustrious.
To the Aurelii Nilos son of Gennadios and Theodoros son of Komasios, riparii of the Hermopolite nome,
from Aurelius Serenos son of Pinoution, from the village of Ense in the same Hermopolite nome. Six years ago I married a wife named Tamounis, whose father is Demetrios, and I gave the customary bridal gifts to this same wife and fulfilled the laws of marriage according to the custom of marriages, and I spent three years living with her. But the mother of the aforementioned turned against me (?), on the ground that my wife had been seized by a demon. So while I was away from home at my own work, so that I might find a way to support our livelihood, she gave this same wife in marriage to another man, named Peeus, from the village of Achilleus in the same Hermopolite nome. So when I had departed according to custom […] house […]
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Riparii were police officials of a nome in the 4th century. The verb rendered 'turned against me' (synepexen) is obscure and its sense is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petition to the Riparii). 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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ὑπατείας Μαμερτίνου καὶ Εἰουίτταν τῶν λαμπροτάτων Αὐρηλίοις Νίλῳ Γενναδίου καὶ Θεοδώρῳ Κωμασίου ῥιπαρίοις νομοῦ Ἑρμοπολίτου παρα Αὐρηλίου Σερήνου Πινουτίωνος ἀπὸ κώμης Ἐνσεὺ τοῦ αὐτοῦ Ἑρμοπολίτου. πρὸ ἓξ τούτων ἐνιαυτῶν ἔγημα γυναῖκα Ταμοῦνιν τὸ ὄνομα ἐκ πατρὸς Δημητρίου καὶ τὰ ἐ…