Petition of the quaestionarius Victor against the nyktostrategos of Hermopolis TM 219304Hermopolis

To […]eius Simplicius, the most illustrious [governor], [from Victor, quaestionarius] of the officium of your lordship, [concerning those who …] against the laws […] […] to the service of the court and rebelling against it under so great a magistracy. For I, Victor by name, […] […] having been sent by the officium of the commentarienses to Hermopolis [to effect] the production of certain persons […] to me by Kyros the nyktostrategos of the aforesaid city, so that I, being in a foreign place, […] his attack […] […] to compel him to hand over the persons against whom I had been petitioned, he showed less regard for your greatness and for the officium […] […] and his brother, he inflicted continual insults and blows with his hands upon me, mocking the orders given by [your excellency] […] to those against whom petition had been made. I, then, having suffered these and other such things and having no help, called many of those present to witness […] […] the violence done to me […] to your excellency, begging you to order the same officium to send assistance to Hermopolis […] the one who dared these things against me, and his father and his brother and those able to bear witness, my lord governor. [They are:] […]erios, archephodos […]erios, donkey-driver [In the consulship of Flavius Caesarius and Atticus], the most illustrious. […] Victor, quaestionarius, […] my lord.