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Proceedings before the governor of Arcadia on a petition concerning a debt TM 22012Oxyrhynchosca. 480
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Minutes of proceedings before the governor of the province of Arcadia, in which a petition of Flavius Eulogios, a palatine official, and Megas is read out. They complain that debtors who owed gold under a written bond fled fifteen years earlier, and they ask for action concerning a mortgaged house in Oxyrhynchus and for two liable persons, Serenos and Martyrios, to be compelled to settle.
In English machine translation
[…] on the day before the Ides of November, Hathyr 16.
[When the petition of Eulogios had been presented:] […] [from the office:] I have in my hands the petition which Eulogios, devotissimus palatinus, and Megas have submitted to your authority, and I will read it, [if your Magnitude so orders. The governor of the province of Arcadia said:] Read it. And he read:
To your authority, from Flavius Eulogios, devotissimus palatinus, and Megas.
[The persons listed below, originating from] […] owed me a specified amount of gold according to the terms of the written bond made by them in my favour, mortgaging for the [debt] […] [Since, then,] fifteen years [have passed] since they sought to evade the debt by flight, and no one appears to [answer] to me on their behalf […] of a house situated in this city, which is part of the same property mortgaged by them […], and that the official staff and the public notaries of the Oxyrhynchite should see to this. And there have also become liable to me under [the aforesaid bond] […] Serenos and Martyrios, whom I ask your Magnitude to have compelled to be brought to a fair settlement and […] lord governor. […]
[The governor of the province of Arcadia said:] If anyone appears […] […]
[…]
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The record is bilingual: the Latin framework of the minutes surrounds the Greek speech and petition. Kathosiomenos (devotissimus) is an honorific rank title of imperial officials; palatinus denotes an official of the imperial finance administration.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Report of Proceedings for Debt). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.oxy.16.1876
[…] die pridie Idus Novembres Ἁθῦρ ιϛ cum obtulisset libellum Eulogii: […] ex officio. ὁποῖον λίβελλον Εὐλόγιος καθοσιώμενος παλατῖνος καὶ ὁ Μέγας ἐπιδεδώκασιν τῇ σῇ ἐξουσίᾳ ἔχων μετὰ χεῖρας ἀναγνώσομαι, εἰ προστάξειέν σου τὸ μέγεθος. praeses provinciae Arcadiae dixit. ἀνάγνωθι. …