Application with oath by Hermaios son of Horion of Hermopolis, himself an ephebe of year 5 of Tiberius, asking that his son Eudaimon the younger be enrolled among the ephebes of the gymnasium for Nero's 7th year. He swears to his own ephebic status and his son's legitimate, free birth. Dated 26 August AD 60 at Hermopolis.
In English machine translation
To Hermaiskos […] of the Hermopolite nome,
from Hermaios son of Horion, his mother being Demetria also called Tereus, one of those who became ephebes in the 5th year of Tiberius Caesar Augustus.
My son Eudaimon the younger, whose mother is Eudaimonis, a Hermopolite woman, and whose paternal grandfather (?) is Ploutogenes also called Tithoes son of Metrodoros, having reached the age for admission to the ephebes, I request that you accept my son among those being admitted as ephebes in the 7th year of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, he being in the class (?) of […] and Epimachos, both sons of Pytheas son of Pytheas, and of Nikostratos also called Kopreus, and Ptolemaios and Epimachos, the three sons of Epimachos. We are registered in the western parts of the Phrourion quarter.
And I swear by Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator that truly I became an ephebe in the aforementioned year, and that the aforementioned is my legitimate son by my said wife, who is a Hermopolite, free, born of free parents, and that I am in the register of admission of those from the gymnasium. If I keep my oath may it be well with me, if I swear falsely the opposite.
Year 6 of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, month Kaisareios, 3rd intercalary day.
[docket] Admission of Eudaimon the younger, son of Hermaios.
Ephebes were youths enrolled in the gymnasium, a status marking membership of the privileged Greek urban class. The phrase 'in the class (?)' renders an obscure, damaged expression (en plagioi) naming his age-mates.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Istanza per inscrizione fra gli efebi). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.