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Petition of Aurelia Demetria to the nyktostrategos about assault by her former husband TM 22351Hermopolis23. Dez. 390
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A petition from Aurelia Demetria to Aurelius Kyros, night-commander (nyktostrategos) of Hermopolis, dated 23 December 390. She complains that Kalandos, after she had sent him a bill of divorce and they had reached a settlement, broke into her home, beat her mercilessly and broke her hand.
In English machine translation
In the consulship of our master Valentinian the eternal Augustus for the 4th time and of Flavius Neoterius, the most illustrious, Choiak 27.
To Aurelius Kyros son of Philammon, nyktostrategos in office of Hermopolis the most illustrious,
from Aurelia Demetria daughter of Eugenios, from the same city. Those who have once experienced the severity and fear of an official ought for the future to behave with restraint and no longer commit any outrage against anyone. Kalandos, however, practising the opposite of this, as is clear from what he dared to do against me after the departure of my lord the comes, after the repudium was given to him by me following the settlement made between us, forced his way into my home, and, as if among barbarians, considers the severity of the laws as nothing, beating me mercilessly and breaking my hand, so that I also have bruises over all my […] and the […]. For this reason I submit to your clemency this my […] requesting […]
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The nyktostrategos was a municipal police official responsible for public order. The ripoudion (Latin repudium) is a formal notice of divorce; much of the text is restored from a duplicate copy, and the end 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 Eingabe an einen Nyktostrategen). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
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ὑπατείας τοῦ δεσπότου ἡμῶν Οὐαλεντινιανοῦ τοῦ αἰωνίου Αὐγούστου τὸ δ καὶ Φλαυίου Νεωτερίου τοῦ λαμπροτάτου Χοίακ κζ. Αὐρηλίῳ Κύρῳ Φιλάμμωνος ἐνάρχῳ νυκτοστρατήγῳ Ἑρμοῦ πόλεως τῆς λαμπροτάτης παρὰ Αὐρηλίας Δημητρίας Εὐγενίου ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως. ἐχρῆν τοὺς ἅπαξ πειραθέντας ἐπιστρ…