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Letter of the prytanis to the strategos on city debtors to be pressed for payment TM 20353Oxyrhynchos234 - 238
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Letter from Lucius Septimius Aurelius Sarapion alias Apolinarios, prytanis of Oxyrhynchus, to the strategos Aurelius Leonides, listing persons who owe money to the city so that their debts can be collected for payments due to the imperial treasury. The surviving list names three brothers, sons of a former agoranomos, owing 400 drachmas, and a certain Heraklas.
In English machine translation
Lucius Septimius Aurelius Sarapion also called Apolinarios, and however I am styled, prytanis in office of the city of the Oxyrhynchites, to Aurelius Leonides, strategos, his dearest, greeting.
Those who are to be required to pay from what they owe to the city, the sums going towards the payment of what is paid out from the account of the city, we are now also writing to you, so that the collection for the most sacred treasury may not be hindered. They are the Aurelii […] and Apollonios and Domitianos, the three sons of Sarapion also called […], former agoranomos, 400 drachmas; […] Heraklas, in the name of […]
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The prytanis was the president of the city council; the city's debts were being recovered to meet sums owed to the imperial treasury (fiscus). The end of the list is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter to 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.
p.oxy.6.890
Λούκιος Σεπτίμιος Αὐρήλιος Σαραπίων ὁ καὶ Ἀπολινάριος καὶ ὡς χρηματίζω ἔναρχος πρύτανις τῆς Ὀξυρυγχειτῶν πόλεως Αὐρηλίῳ Λεωνίδῃ στρατηγῷ τῶι φιλτάτωι χαίρειν. τοὺς ἀπαιτεῖσθαι μέλλοντας ἀφʼ ὧν ὀφείλουσι τῇ πόλει χωρούντων εἰς διαγραφὴν τῶν ἐκ λόγου τῆς πόλεως διαγραφομένων καὶ νῦ…