Petition to the logistes against nomination to the exegeteship pending appeal TM 22465Oxyrhynchites12. Jan. 330

After the consulship of our masters Constantine Augustus for the 8th time and Constantine the most illustrious Caesar for the 4th time, Tybi 17. To Flavius Julianus, logistes of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from Aurelius Diogenes son of Ammonios, from the same city. It would be superfluous to remind your skill of what is laid down by the authority of the laws, which clearly orders that, once an appeal has been lodged, no innovation is to be made. Since, then, on the present day it came to my ears that a letter had been submitted to your office by the prytanis in office, by which our name was put forward among those who are to hold office, with the office of exegetes also attached and assigned to me by name, and I am at once lodging an appeal against those very persons who nominated me to the exegeteship, having very many just grounds in this matter, in order that these rights may not be prejudiced before judgment and that nothing may be held in suspense by the letter, I ask, since the judgment on all matters depends once and for all on my lord the most perfect prefect of Egypt Flavius Magnilianus, that […] the prytanis, so that he may know that nothing […] in circumvention of my plea is to be done. […] I, Aurelius Diogenes, [submitted this] […] […]