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Beginning of a petition from Aurelius Aristion, a former magistrate and town councillor of Oxyrhynchus, to Aurelius Dioskoros, overseer of the peace of the Oxyrhynchite nome, complaining of outrageous conduct by Besammon son of Apollos of the village of Paneuei. The matter apparently concerned plots of land connected with a woman Tamois; the text breaks off. It was written at Oxyrhynchus on 13 November 341.
The epoptes eirenes (overseer of the peace) was a 4th-century police official of the nome. The petitioner invokes the prefect of Augustamnica, the province to which Oxyrhynchus then belonged.
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 a Chief of Police). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
ὑπατείας Ἀντωνίου Μαρκελλίνου καὶ Πετρωνίου Προβίνου τῶν λαμπροτάτων Ἁθὺρ ιζ. Αὐρηλίῳ Διοσκόρῳ ἐπόπτῃ εἰρήνης Ὀξυρυγχίτου παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Ἀριστίωνος Πτολεμαίου ἄρξαντος βουλευτοῦ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως. οὐκ ἄξια τετόλμηκεν οὔτε τῆς εὐνομίας τῶν εὐτυχεστάτων τούτων καιρῶν οὐτʼ τοῦ φόβου τ…
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