Petition to the prefect of Augustamnica about seizure of land at Thmoiouthis TM 21707Herakleopolis (?)

[… lines lost …] […] telling the truth […] differing […] […] Farewell. To Marcus […] most illustrious […] [To …] prefect of Augustamnica, from Aurelius Germanos son of Horos, from […] […] by the providence (?) of God I own near the hamlet of Thmoiouthis […] 80 arouras from the […] up to now, and having farmed these I lease them out to those who wish, [paying] the rents and taxes according to […] […] having made some common plan, Palit son of Horos and his children and Perit son of Merkourios and Kollouthes his brother […] in the manner of robbers trespassed on my land, wishing to farm it themselves, and so that I would make them account, they came […] all of them, small and great, with clubs and swords, wishing to kill me, and [I had] to hear improper words from them, and if I had not by divine providence escaped from them I would have been in danger even of my life, they despising […] authority. And I appealed to your brother Philagrios about these matters, and he ordered by a memorandum the […] of the city of […] to hand the land over to me, and the exactor accordingly wrote to the praepositus of the pagus […] the boundary-surveyor, and having come for the inspection and having remeasured the allotment they handed it over to me […] they deposited a written report with me, which I also produce. Again, after I had farmed it for five years […] and they did not allow me to farm it again, despising my quiet life and my position and the […] […] trusting in their wealth and exercising tyranny in the locality, they reap the produce while I pay the taxes. […] by your subscription to order the praepositus of the fort of Hippones in the nearest district to compel those named [to withdraw from] my land […], and moreover to restore to me the rents for all this time, so that having recovered these I may be grateful […] I pay the public taxes for them; and if they dispute, that they be sent to remain before your unsullied court, as I am ready […] the feet (?), I shall acknowledge my greatest thanks to you always. Farewell. I, Aurelius Germanos, the aforesaid, have submitted (this). I, […] son of Eudaimon, former magistrate of Herakleopolis, wrote for him since he does not know letters.