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A private letter from Seleukos to his 'brother' Athenodoros, asking him to stop his agents from harassing three local men, an epistates, a scribe and Heraklas son of Ebes, over the arithmetikon tax, since they are his companions. It comes from the Herakleopolite nome and is dated year 16 of Caesar (Augustus).
The arithmetikon was a tax or levy of uncertain nature in early Roman Egypt. The verb rendered 'slighting' (paroplizein, literally 'to disarm') is unusual and its sense here is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Σέλευκος Ἀθηνοδώρωι τῶι ἀδελφῶι πλεῖστα χαίρειν καὶ διὰ παντὸς ἐρρῶσθαι· Ἡρᾶς ὁ ἐπιστάτης καὶ Ἀρτεμᾶς ὁ γραμματεὺς καὶ Ἡρακλᾶς τοῦ Ἐβήους ἐντετεύχασι ὡς ἐνοχλούμενοι ὑπὸ τῶν παρὰ σοῦ πρὸς ἀριθμητικόν· ἐρωτῶ οὖν σε συντάξαι τῶν συνεκδήμων μου ἀποσχέσθαι ἢ ὅτι παροπλιεῖς με· μὴ οὖν…
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