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Minutes of a prefect's hearing on the citizenship of discharged veterans TM 20977unbekannt

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Copy of the minutes of a hearing held by the prefect of Egypt before his council in the tenth year of Nero, concerning the citizenship claims of discharged soldiers. The prefect explains that veterans of legions, cavalry units, cohorts and the fleet have different rights, and says he has written to the nome strategoi to protect each group's privileges.

In English machine translation

Copy of minutes. In the tenth year of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, month of Sebastos, day 7, in the great atrium, at the tribunal, there being present in council Norbanus Ptolemaeus, iuridicus and in charge of the idios logos, Avillius Quadratus and Tennius Veter, […] Atticus, Papirius Pastor and Baebius Iuncinus, prefects, Iulius Lysimachus, Claudius Herakleides, dioiketes, [Clau]dius Euktemon, Claudius Secundus. Concerning the discharged soldiers, about citizenship: […] I told you before too that your case is neither similar nor the same […]; for some of you are veterans from the legions, others from the alae, others from the cohorts, others from the fleet, so that the right of all is not the same. But I shall take care about this, and I have written to the strategoi of the nomes so that the privilege […] may be preserved in full for you according to the right of each. … I have written.

Missicii are soldiers honourably discharged; the dispute concerns the citizenship (politeia) and privileges granted on discharge. The place, Alexandria, is inferred from the prefect's tribunal in the great atrium and is not stated in the records supplied.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Procès - verbal d’audience: droit de cité d’anciens soldats). 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

ἀντίγραφον ὑπομνηματισμοῦ. ἔτους δεκάτου Νέρωνος Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος, μηνὸς Σεβαστοῦ ζ, ἐν τῶι μεγάλῳ ἀτρίωι, ἐπὶ βήματος, παρόντων ἐν συνβουλίωι Νωρβανοῦ Πτολεμαίου δικαιοδότου καὶ πρὸς τῶι ἰδίῳ λόγῳ, Ἀουιλλίου Κουαδράτου καὶ Τεννίου Οὐέτερος […]υ …