Fragmentary application by Aurelius Pasion to the council of Oxyrhynchus about the nomination of his young son to municipal office, apparently the gymnasiarchy. Pleading limited means after his shipping service, he offers to undertake a reduced share of days of gymnasiarchy and euthenarchy, with payments split between Thoth and the harvest, referring to arrangements with Asklepiades and to the prefect Valerius Firmus.
In English machine translation
[fragment 1]
To the most excellent council of the city of the Oxyrhynchites, through […] gymnasiarch, prytanis in office, from Aurelius Pasion […]
[…] before you the matters of the nomination that took place of […]
[…] beyond our means has in any way been done […]
[…] of our most illustrious prefect Valerius Firmus for endurance (?) […]
[…] to preserve the boy both for themselves and for the […]
[…] the term given by the greatness of the prefecture […]
[…] to stand and persuaded beyond means, not according to […]
[…] of the shipping service fulfilled by me and of the other […]
[…] is beyond our property, and I now have […]
[…] is. It suffices therefore […] in relation to the resources […]
[…] to have been established, it is now your task […]
[…] my means, while […] urges […]
[…] among you something more even than my means […]
[…] of the prytany of Asklepiades, and of the gymnasiarchy and the eutheniarchy […] that I serve as gymnasiarch for five days each year and as euthenarch for five days […] forcing myself beyond my means, and I pray to be able […]
[…] you wished, and to our most illustrious prefect […]
[…] I will undertake for the boy a four-month gymnasiarchy and […]
[…] you will […] of the prytany of Asklepiades, which Asklepiades himself […] said, the days of gymnasiarchy which he performed in advance […] of which I have already paid the expense, and to Asklepiades […] 3 days, the 18th, 19th, 20th, which Asklepiades himself among you […] in the present month Thoth one third, and two thirds at the time of the harvest […]
[…] by him to the same son of mine, he receiving there one third, and two thirds at the time of the harvest, and in the […]
[…] in the present year 5, Epeiph 2 days, the 11th and 12th, and in the coming year 6 […]
[…] 5 days, and in his prytany Thoth […]
[…] 5 days of the gymnasiarchy and 5 days of the euthenarchy
[…] to pay until […]
[…] the gymnasiarchy to my son […]
[fragment 2]
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Euthenarchy (euthêniarchia) was a liturgy responsible for the food supply. The office was assigned in days of service, and Pasion seems to negotiate which days he will fund."}
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Application to the Senate). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.