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Proceedings before the praeses of Arcadia on a petition of Philoxenos TM 22014Herakleopolis1. Sept. 461
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Bilingual Latin and Greek minutes of proceedings before the governor (praeses) of the province of Arcadia, held at Herakleopolis on 1 September 461. The office presents a petition from Philoxenos of Oxyrhynchus, which the governor orders read; it begins by naming persons who had become liable to him, apparently for a debt.
In English machine translation
In the year after the consulship of Apollonius, vir clarissimus, and of whoever shall be announced, on the day of the Kalends of September, at Herakleopolis, Thoth 4.
When the petition of Philoxenos had been presented, from the office (said): "We have in hand a petition which Philoxenos from the city of the Oxyrhynchites has submitted to your authority; we shall read it, if your Magnificence so orders."
[…], praeses of the province of Arcadia, said: "Read it." And he read out: "To your authority, from […] from the city of the Oxyrhynchites. The persons listed below, coming from Episemou (?) […] have become liable to me […]"
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The framework of the record is in Latin and the spoken parts and petition in Greek, typical of late Roman court minutes. The subject of debt is inferred from the word 'liable'; the rest of the text is lost.
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.16.1878
post consulatum Apollonii viri clarissimi et qui nuntiatusfuerit, die Kalendarum Septembrium Heracleopoli Θὼθ δ. cum obtulisset libellum Filoxeni: ex officio. ὁποῖον λίβελλον Φιλόξενος ἀπὸ τῆς Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν ἐπιδέδωκεν τῇ σῇ ἐξουσίᾳ ἔχων μετὰ χεῖρας ἀναγνωσόμεθα, εἰ προστάξειέν σου …