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Edict of the prefect of Egypt Lucius Aemilius Rectus forbidding soldiers, police and officials from requisitioning people or demanding free provisions from the rural population without his official permit, and threatening the severest penalty for violence or extortion. It is dated to the second year of Claudius (AD 42) and comes from Hermopolis.
Germaniceus was the honorific name given to the month Pachon under Claudius' predecessors; here the day is 4. The verb angareuein refers to compulsory requisition of labour or transport for state purposes.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Λεύκιος Αἰμίλλις Ῥῆκτος λέγει· μηδενὶ ἐξέστω ἀγγαρεύειν τοὺς ἐπὶ τῆς χώρας μηδὲ ἐφόδια ἢ ἄλλο τι δωρεὰν αἰτεῖν ἄτερ τοῦ ἐμοῦ διπλώματος, λαμβάνειν δὲ ἕκαστον τῶν ἐχόντων ἐμὸν δίπλωμα τὰ αὐτάρκη ἐπιτήδεια τιμὴν ἀποδιδόντας αὐτῶν. ἐὰν δέ τις μηνυθῇ ἢ τῶν στρατευομένων ἢ τῶν μαχαιρο…
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