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Petition to the epistrategos for release from a guardianship TM 20623Oxyrhynchos14. Dez. 156
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Petition from Nikias son of Harpalos of Oxyrhynchus to the epistrategos Statilius Maximus, asking to be released from a guardianship of the minor sons of Dionysios son of Dorion to which the city secretary Serenos had nominated him. He argues that he is unrelated to the children, that they have relatives able to serve, and that liturgies have left him in debt; it is dated December AD 156.
In English machine translation
To Statilius Maximus, the most excellent epistrategos,
from Nikias son of Harpalos, of the city of Oxyrhynchus. The city secretary Serenos nominated me to the guardianship of the minor sons of Dionysios son of Dorion, although I am about 25 years old, and although I have no connection by kinship on their father's or mother's side, while they have others among their relatives who are able to manage the affairs of their guardianship. Since I have been weighed down by liturgies and have fallen into debt, I ask, lord, if it please your Fortune, that you order the strategos to compel the city secretary to appoint another in my place to the guardianship of the minors, so that I may be free to attend to my farming, in order that I may also be able to pay the debts incurred by me from the service, and that you not drive me from my own property and my own home, so that I may have received your benefaction. Farewell.
Year 20 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, month Hadrianos 18.
I, Nikias son of Harpalos, have submitted (this).
Guardianship (epitropē) of minors was a compulsory public service (liturgy) imposed by nomination. Hadrianos was an honorific name for the month Choiak.
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 Epistrategus). 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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Στατιλίῳ Μαξίμῳ τῷ κρατίστωι ἐπιστρατήγῳ παρὰ Νικίου Ἁρπάλου ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως. ὁ τῆς πόλεως γραμματεὺς Σερῆνος εἰσέδωκέ με εἰς ἐπιτροπὴν ἀφηλίκων υἱῶν Διονυσίου Δωρίωνος ὄντων ὡς ἐτῶν εἴκοσι πέντε καὶ μηδένα πρὸς γένους ἐκ πατρὸς ἢ μητρὸς αὐτῶν ἄλλοτε ἐχόντων τοὺς ἐκ τῆς συγγ…